Articles tagged with: Email, VoIP, Telephony
Further to my earlier post regarding Forefront and CA InoculateIT (Exchange 2007 Forefront Event ID 6014) there is an additional step required – to disable scanner update attempts for CA InoculateIT in the Security Administrator. This is to stop the event 6014 repeatedly cropping up in the Event Viewer (CA InoculateIT has been rolled up [read more...]
It can be useful to change the default threshold for sending potential Junk mail (based on the Spam Confidence Level) to the Junk mail folder when using Exchange 2007 Anti-Spam. The default is set to 8 which is quite high – the recommended level is 4. You can use the following command in the console [read more...]
Looking through the event logs, post Forefront installation, a particular error keeps cropping up, stating Event ID: 6014 Source: GetEngineFiles on the ScanEngine called CAIris. Microsoft Forefront Server Security encountered an error while performing a scan engine update. Scan Engine: CAIris Update Path: http://forefrontdl.microsoft.com/server/scanengineupdate/x86/CAIris Proxy Settings: Disabled Error Code: 0×80004005 [read more...]
I have noticed, recently, an increase in the number of incoming emails purporting to be from a well known software company advising the email recipient of a special software “fix” being sent via email. The email goes on to recommend the user install the software patch immediately – DO NOT. The email messages I have [read more...]
Whilst trying to connect with Microsoft Forefront from an XP Client I received the following error: ERROR: Unable to connect to service. An error was returned. Location: CoCreateInstanceEx. Error: Access is denied. The client program works from the server itself so it was off to the search engines to try and track down the problem. [read more...]
Since implementing the Exchange 2007 Anti-Spam filters we have been experiencing a higher number of NDR (Non Delivery Report) messages going out as a result of spam – fortunately our second level mail filter is catching most of them (not an edge server). We were hoping Spam messages might get silently dropped but some do [read more...]
Further to my earlier post regarding Configuring Exchange Server 2007 Anti-Spam with Hub Transport I found this Slide Share that gives a good overview of the security features built into Exchange 2007. In particular it outlines the role of the Edge Transport Server as well as giving a good overview of how the Anti-Spam process [read more...]
MailArchiver 6 is now available from GFI which can be found at http://www.gfi.com/mailarchiver/ , GFI are also kindly offering a special introductory discount during the month of September 2008. MailArchiver 6 now requires Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 which can be downloaded from Microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E17E7F31-079A-43A9-BFF2-0A110307611E&displaylang=en. This download adds an [read more...]


