Monthly Archives: July 2008

Si el IMF no te alcanza…

IMF (Intelligent Message Filter) es un agente de antispam lanzado inicialmente por Microsoft para Exchange 2003, como una descarga por separado. La versión 2 fue agregada al Service Pack 2 de Exchange 2003.

Muchas veces vemos que la interfaz de IMF no alcanza para poder realizar todas las operaciones que una herramienta AntiSpam trae. Pero no subestimemos el poder de IMF. Windevelopers desarrolló una poderosa herarmienta que extiende las opciones de IMF, agregando esa funcionalidad extra que faltaba.

Su producto IMF Tune puede ser utilizado en Exchange 2003 y 2007. He recibido una copia NFR (Not for resale) y me decidí a probarla. Los resultados, impresionantes y su simplicidad es aún más llamativa.

La pantalla principal nos dice mucho de lo que puede hacer:

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En la parte de Email Handling podemos configurar qué haremos con los correos que entren dentro de cada una de las categorías:

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Y las acciones posibles son:

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Segúnel SCL (Spam Condifence Level) podemos configurar un mensaje de auto respuesta, donde podemos agregar algo así como "Este mensaje fue filtrado por ser considerado SPAM, póngase en contacto con su administrador).

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Otra de las grandes funcionalidades que tenemos es la de Listas blancas, importantísimo :D. Muchas preguntas en los foros son respecto a esto. Cómo agrego un dominio a una whitelist, cómo agrego una dirección. Bueno, desde esta consola podremos hacerlo. Y lo mismo para las Blacklists…

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Además, tendremos una manera gráfica de poder editar los puntajes que se le asigna a un correo para formar el SCL, pudiendo agregar Keywords específicos o aún más detalles:

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Éstas son apenas las funciones que más me llamaron la atención, pero la herramienta soporta muchas mas configuraciones y reglas avanzadas. Muy recomendable para pequeñas y medianas implementaciones, donde el único anti spam en la red es el mismo servidor de Exchange.

 

La URL del producto es http://www.windeveloper.com/imftune/ y la lista de precios y descarga pueden encontrarse en la misma ubicación.

 

Saludos,
Pablo Vernocchi
Microsoft Exchange MVP
MCSE + M / MCSE + Sec
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Pablo

Nuevos artículos técnicos en la KB para Exchange Server

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952816
After you apply Hotfix Rollup 3 for Antigen 9.0 for Exchange with Service Pack 1, you can configure the notifications for scan engine errors and for scan engine time-outs

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952940
The Statistics.xml file is written to the Antigen\Data directory instead of to the shared drive that is expected when you run FSSMC in a cluster environment

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952615
A file does not exist in the quarantine in Antigen 9.0 for Exchange

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951539
Antigen 9.0 incorrectly detects the Winmail.dat file as a CorruptedCompressedFile virus when the Winmail.dat file contains multiple image files that are embedded

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951436
The Antigen Administrator displays no General Options settings in Antigen 9.0 for Exchange

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951534
Error message that has an error code 80005000 when you run Antigen 9.0 in a cluster environment: "ERROR: ADGetStorage – Could not bind to Active Directory configuration context"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952037
When the Exchange cluster group has more than one Network Name resource, Antigen 9.0 only uses the first Network Name resource, even if it is not the correct resource

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951443
The AntigenService service takes a long time to stop in Antigen 9.0, and the service continues to log events in the Application log when Windows is shutting down

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951444
Hotfix Rollup 3 for Antigen 9.0 for Exchange with Service Pack 1 contains a new feature that displays the Microsoft Knowledge Base article numbers of installed updates for Antigen

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953324
The priority setting for the file filter lists is incorrect after you delete and then create a file filter list in Antigen 9.0 for Exchange

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952620
An e-mail attachment is not renamed to have a .txt file name extension as expected in Antigen 9.0 for Exchange

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951445
Hotfix Rollup 3 for Antigen 9.0 for Exchange with Service Pack 1 contains a new feature that displays the status of an engine update in the Antigen Administrator

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950791
Description of Hotfix Rollup 3 for Antigen 9.0 for Exchange with Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951382
The program log for Antigen 9.0 for Exchange with Service Pack 1 incorrectly reports the .bz2 file type as an unknown file type

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952881
The File Filtering section in Antigen 9.0 does not have a known file type for Windows Media Video (.wmv) files

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952668
Antigen 9.0 for Exchange with Service Pack 1 uses CryptoAPI to encrypt data in cluster environments and in stand-alone environments

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952926
The installation recognizes the active node as passive when you try to install Antigen 9.0 for Exchange with Service Pack 1 in a cluster environment

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952936
The sender address logging functionality was removed from the ProgramLog.txt file in Hotfix Rollup 3 for Antigen 9.0 for Exchange Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951454
The CAIris scan engine cannot be removed after you install Antigen 9.0 for Exchange Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953494
Error message when you try to run a remote installation of Antigen 9.0 for Exchange on a remote computer: "Installation was not successful"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953498
The engine download process is reported as a time-out, and the new engine is not accepted in Antigen 9.0 for Exchange with Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952335
Two notifications are sent for each e-mail message that matches a detection rule when you enable the Message Journaling feature in Antigen 9.0 for Exchange

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952841
Some e-mail messages may be stuck in the Categorizer component in an Exchange Server 2003 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=949412
Event ID 1014 and Event 1005 are logged in the Application log after you use an SSL certificate for Exchange virtual server on an Exchange Server 2003-based cluster

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952842
The installation of the Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport role may be unsuccessful on a Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953526
Error message when you try to migrate an e-mail message that is larger than 4 MB by using Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino: "Maximum request length exceeded"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951619
The body of an e-mail message is truncated when you run Outlook in cached mode or when you move the e-mail message to a .pst file in Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951639
Exchange 2003 users receive spam e-mail messages that are sent from a single-label DNS name, even though the single-label domain name is invalid

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952773
You receive an NDR message in an Exchange Server 2007 environment when you try to send an e-mail message to an address type that is supported by a fax connector

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953126
CDO-based applications and applications that use Exchange Web Services do not support meeting request status reporting at the same level as Outlook

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952771
When you use Outlook to send an HTML e-mail message to an Exchange Server 2007 user, the e-mail message appears garbled, or it contains Asian characters

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951214
The From field and the Organizer field are not retained in a meeting request that contains an attachment in an Exchange 2003 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=954204
Exchange services cannot be started, and event ID 7024 is logged after you install Symantec Mail Security on a Windows Server 2008-based computer that is running Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950559
Description of the update for the Unified Communications Client API SDK

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953112
Event ID 56013 with an error code of 80070005 is logged in Event Viewer when you change the password for Office Communications Server 2007 service accounts

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953907
Description of the update package for Communications Server 2007: June 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=954000
Address Book synchronization may occur two times when many clients connect to a computer that is running Communications Server 2007

GLUE Invita: Comunicaciones Unificadas


4 de agosto / 18:30 hs

GLUE Invita: Comunicaciones Unificadas

Overview de Office Communications Server 2007 y Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging: capacidades de cada uno e integración entre ambos productos; presencia avanzada. Live Meeting y Video conferencia; voz sobre IP; integración con Telefonía; setup y posibles ambientes

Lugar: MUG, Av. Rivadavia 1479 Piso 1
Horario: 18:30 hrs
Oradores: Carlos Dinapoli y Pablo Vernocchi

Registro aquí

Nuevos Rollups para Exchange 2007 RTM y SP1

Microsoft liberó el Security Rollup correspondientes para las versiones de Exchange:

· Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 (KB 949870)

· Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 RTM (KB 953469)

 

Información de descarga para el Update Rollup 3 para Exchange 2007 SP1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=63E7F26C-92A8-4264-882D-F96B348C96AB&displaylang=en

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=949870

 

Información de descarga para el Update Rollup 7 para Exchange 2007 RTM

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=086A2A13-A1DE-4B1D-BD12-B148BFD2DAFA&displaylang=en

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953469

Saludos,
Pablo Vernocchi
Microsoft Exchange MVP
MCSE + M / MCSE + Sec
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Pablo

ISA Server 2006 SP1 recién salido del horno

Microsoft acaba de publicar el SP1 para ISA Server 2006. Los detalles t;ecnicos pueden encontrarlos en:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943462

Mientras que la descarga está disponible en:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d2feca6d-81d7-430a-9b2d-b070a5f6ae50&DisplayLang=en

 

Saludos,
Pablo Vernocchi
Microsoft Exchange MVP
MCSE + M / MCSE + Sec
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Pablo

PPT de la Conferencia Técnica Migración y coexistencia de Exchange 2007

Buenas a todos,

Los interesados en descargar la PPT (PowerPoint) de la conferencia mencionada, pueden visitar el sitio del GLUE en el siguiente link:

https://ug.culminis.com/sites/glue/Documentos%20compartidos/Forms/DOCS.aspx?RootFolder=%2fsites%2fglue%2fDocumentos%20compartidos%2fPPTs&FolderCTID=&View=%7b90211126%2d615E%2d4AB2%2dBF44%2d0FDE674762FA%7d

Saludos,
Pablo.