Yesterday I got a question about whether it's possible to import a whitelist, or safe senders list, into FPE. In the FPE docs there are instructions for Creating an allowed senders filter list . You can import items into the list. See Importing items...

Our video guy, Micah LaNasa, has been really busy lately creating and posting new videos for the Forefront anti-spam products. Here are a few for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server, which provides anti-spam, anti-malware, and anti-virus protection...

Last week my group released the Forefront Protection Server Management Console . The release was the culmination of a lot of work by the feature team (dev, test, program management), the documentation team, the localization team, and the marketing folks...

Many customers don't know that it's possible to use AD RMS to protect documents in a SharePoint document library. On the AD RMS team blog , Micah LaNasa recently highlighted some resources that can show you how this is done.

This week I've been getting to know Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and I thought this video on TechNet Edge was really helpful. Long, but helpful. Alexander Nikolayev, program manager for FPE, walks us through how all of the anti-spam...

The Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 beta has released. This new release is setting the stage for the Windows 2010 security landscape, and may also reflect a revised viewpoint from Microsoft on who should do what regarding IT security, Retallack...

The first post in this blog series looks promising. The Hit the ground running blog compares the two online productivity suites.

I recently provisioned AD RMS on WS 2003 R2 and I made a few notes as I ran into issues. Perhaps these will give you a nudge in the right direction if you are troubleshooting: First, you must download Windows RMS 1.0 SP2 and install it. The installation...

Forefront Identity Manager 2010 is reviewed in this article . Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Forefront Identity Manager 2010 is a powerful platform for managing user identities, credentials, and identity-based access policies for both Windows and...

I came across this nice utility for monitoring debug output called DebugView (forgive me if I'm late to the party). Last week I was running some of the AD RMS sample code and getting an error. I used DebugView to get more details about it. To use the...

Liquid Machines Extends Its Industry-Leading Support of BlackBerry Smartphones for Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services to More Than 400 File Formats Mobile access to real-time communications and data can increase the risk of a loss...

Recently, a technical writer in my group created a few videos about Forefront Online Protection for Exchange that are a great introduction to the product. If you have decided to implement it in your organization, the following videos can make the process...

My plan is to outline the steps I'm taking to set up an AD RMS environment on my desktop PC in my home office. Hopefully this will be helpful to those of you doing the same. I'm following the AD RMS Step-by-Step Guide on TechNet. Firstly I’m setting up...

This article outlines some of the features in the new version of Exchange. There is also a brief mention of its interoperability with AD RMS. Using the Transport Protection Rules, it was possible within the administration interface to create customized...

I came across this blog post today from the How Exchange Works blog that covers how to check that Cloudmark updates are working correctly: Cloudmark Antispam Engine Not Updating In Forefront Protection 2010 For Exchange Server… It's helpful...

I wrote this for my friends and family and I thought I'd share it here: Last week my wife got an email message that looked like it was from our bank. (The message had similar coloring and branding as our bank's) It asked her to go to another website...

We made a few videos that can help you quickly set up and configure the FPSMC : FPSMC How-to: Installation in a standalone server scenario FPSMC How-to: Installation on both a Primary and Backup Server FPSMC How-to: Configure Forefront Protection...

This morning I've been doing some reading about Windows FCI . I've mentioned it on this blog before. In short, FCI helps you determine the business value of files on your network (typically, you'd be looking for sensitive data that you want to protect...

Yesterday I checked out these videos by Phil Pennington regarding the Windows File Classification Infrastructure. They were helpful. I thought the API video would be especially good for a programmer trying to ramp up with the technology.

This is a follow up to Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Roadmap . In that post, I referred to a blog post on the Server and Cloud blog, Important Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps , which explained that future releases of FPE are being...

On the Microsoft podcasts site you can find a recently released podcast, Forefront Online Protection for Exchange and Office 365 - Better Together (direct link to the mp3), that addresses how Forefront Online Protection for Exchange and Office 365 can...

I write for a developer/IT pro audience, but I regularly have people ask me about documentation for end users (typically a knowledge worker trying to figure out how to protect documents with Word or Outlook). I usually refer people to Information Rights...

This documentation, Overview of Complex FOPE Mail Flow Scenarios , can be helpful if you use FOPE and are planning to bring a subset of your mailboxes to the cloud, but you also keep mailboxes on premises. It addresses a handful of cross-premises scenarios...

I thought this was a really interesting and detailed article : Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 ships with protectors based on the Information Rights Management (IRM) framework. These provide Microsoft Office users with the benefit of...

Exchange 2010 contains some new features that make use of AD RMS technology. Exchange's Information Protection and Control topic highlights some of these features, including transport protections rules, Outlook protection rules, and IRM support in Outlook...