Prior to deploying software patches and fixes into production, we must test them. As a result, we do not use auto-update for deploying updates to our production environment. If IMF updates are only available via AU, it would require a lot of additional work to deploy updates manually twice per month.
May we suggest making IMF updates available separately from other software updates, much like an anti-virus update is deployed that require minimal manual intervention? Hi, I also went to the microsoft update site, but it doesn't report the update is available.
Further more, the update is delivered to WSUS. I approved it for installation, but WSUS reports that the update is not needed on our exchange server???? The package should be available by pm PST today.
My apologies for the delay. The packages will be available via both AU and manual. We are looking into making IMF Updates available separately from other updates for Exchange 12 server. The update is live on MU guys. Please be aware that the installer will restart iisadmin, so for a couple of minutes corresponding services e. Yes, it is live now! Thanks :. I wonder how WSUS works with this. I would expect without any additional work I wonder what the difference is Regular updates will take IMF to the next level in my opinion.
The registry key requirement will certainly cause some to miss the updates unfortunately. But nevertheless it is a good step forward. IMF Updates is the key to maitaining your server's ability to separate ham from spam so stay tuned! Did all of the above registry, restart, etc , the update discussed above is not visible on Windows Updates or my WSUS server. Is it still there or am I missing something?
But hey, it works now. Franc, Forgive me for the stupid question, but did you check Exchange as one of the updates to check under for your WSUS subscription? I also did the registry addition, restarted and I still am not seeing the update in Windows Update. Vlad, yes I did. Otherwise the update doesn't show up in WSUS at all.
It just reported the updated wasn't needed by exchange , but weird thing, next day it wants to install it on the server. What is your config? Alex I am running E2K3 sp2 on a server.
The IMF application is running and blocking spam but I am not able to see any updates. If so that sounds a little unecessary. Shouldn't a goal of SP3 be to deal with admins who put this in place and forgot about it? Customers don't always know who did what in their enviornment, so it is better IMHO if the service pack can account for that. To answer Dan Sheehan: Dan, you do not have to remove anything, the case in KB applies to a situation when you apply service pack in a few months after its release.
For example, the SP3 has been released in January, and you did not upgraded to it immediately. You, however, continue to apply IMF Updates on regular basis. By August you decide to upgrade to SP3. Now what happens is that the IMF files both.
During upgrade these newer files will be replaced by the older back from january IMF fiels that come with SP3, so you need after upgrade to go to Microsoft Updates and install the latest version of IMF files.
When you go to the MU site, can you see other updates? Alex I double-checked and the ContentFilterState registry is in the correct location. NET Framework 2.
Thats the only updates available to me. Thanks for your help! Alex I found the problem. I was going to Windows Update instead of Microsoft Update. The update is there and I am downloading it now! Chris, this is good news! New update will help with catching more spam! Guys, on January 17th I will have a webcast covering anti-spam technologies in Exchange and how Microsoft IT department implements them.
Alex I have a quick question for you. Is there anything on my end that I need to do or was it a glitch? Alex, i wonder if i should copy my MSExchange. The update process described in KB dont give me an answer to this question.
Thanks in advance! To answer Maxim's question: Yes, you need to copy the Custom Weight List file to the newly created directory every time when the new update is installed. You also need to reset iis if the file is not working after the move.
I will make changes to the KB to address this scenario. To answer Chris's question: There is nothing wrong on your end, it was a typo in documentation and we are fixing it.
The intended behavior is that mail items with SCL only above 5 will be moved to Junk, so this is the reason you see mail with SCL5 in your inbox. Web Page Originally written for the bolt on version of IMF, a set of ASP pages provides a easy to use interface to view the messages, and resubmit them for delivery to the end user. If you have already deployed an SSL certificate protected web site, then you could add these pages to the site.
That would allow an administrator or other trusted person to check the messages remotely. To control access, simply put the pages on to an NTFS partition and then change the security settings of the folder to allow just those who should have access. When you are using this application, if you get errors about "The HTTP headers are already written to the client browser" then go in to IIS Manager, find the virtual directory that has been created.
On the "Application Settings" click on configuration, then the "Options" tab. Utilities There are a couple of free utilities that can be used as well. These will mean sharing the UCE folder out for remote access, or allowing access to the server. Each message is given a spam confidence level SCL.
The level is then used by Exchange to decide what to do with the message. You can get the SCL level entered in to the header of the email messages sent in to the archive via a registry change. Alternatively, copy this text in to notepad, save as "archive-scl.
Microsoft have stated that it isn't possible to expose the SCL level in the headers for all email messages as it does for messages in the archive. That isn't to say that it cannot be done. If you want server side, then you will have to look to third parties.
This allows you to see the SCL as a column in Outlook. If you want to store the archived messages in another location, then you can make a change to the registry to change it. Create the folder first. Enter ArchiveDir as the key value. Enter the full path to the new folder as the string data. If you have already started using a tool to manage the archive location, don't forget to change that.
Ensure that you antivirus application is not scanning the archive folder. On access scanners can cause problems when it comes to viewing messages due to the way that they hold the file open.
Messages with viruses may well be caught by the this tool. One of the weaknesses of IMF is the lack of white list capability. This is where you can tell IMF to allow an email through, no matter what it scores.
The only white listing that is natively supported is via IP address. This is set elsewhere in Exchange System Manager. A detailed explanation of IMFAM is out of the scope of this article, but remember to visit the home of the utility on a relatively frequent basis. You should rather consider IMF to be an extra layer in your organizations existing antispam solution.
We have only touched the surface of IMF, in order to get detailed information about the add-on, you should head over and read the IMF Deployment Guide, which you will find under the relevant reading section in the end of the article. Another problem you may experience is that after you install and configure Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter on your Microsoft Exchange Server computer, e-mail messages that contain a computer virus or a worm program are not permanently deleted.
Instead, these e-mail messages remain in the SMTP local delivery queue in Exchange until they time out. Your email address will not be published.
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