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Forefront Protection for Exchange Rollup 3

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Microsoft released Hotfix Rollup 3 for Forefront Protection for Exchange Server (KB2538719).

Here’s the list of fixes included in this rollup:

  1. Mail queues and sluggish Exchange/Outlook performance
  2. Increased “Available Disk Space” Health Point threshold to 250MB
  3. Error: The DNS Blocklist lookup domain blocklist.messaging.microsoft.com could not be contacted
  4. The Exchange Information store crashes with Forefront Protection for Exchange installed
  5. An attempted upgrade of Forefront Protection for Exchange fails with a “Registration Service Failed” error
  6. You receive Forefront Protection Health Notifications indicating a status of “Green to Green”
  7. Forefront generates a MaxDisabledWait error within 15 minutes after starting
  8. A MaxDisabledWait error occurs and Forefront Protection does not recover
  9. Forefront Protection doesn’t apply keyword filtering within hyperlink strings
  10. Forefront Protection for Exchange crashes while scanning a TAR file
  11. An engine update fails in Forefront Protection for Exchange
  12. Emails that are 90 MB or larger are being sent to the Forefront archive folder
  13. The Microsoft Forefront Server Protection Eventing Service will not start following an upgrade from a beta version of Forefront Protection for Exchange
  14. Forefront Protection for Exchange detects files as “Engine Error” when no engines have been enabled for scanning
  15. Messages quarantined due to engine error can now be delivered as complete email
  16. High CPU conditions in EdgeTransort.exe process result in crash
  17. You receive Forefront generated email notification that the Cloudmark engine or Worm list could not update
  18. Exchange email queues at startup following an abnormal shutdown

For more details on the fixes consult the related knowledge base article. You can request the hotfix rollup through the support center here.

Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 3 v3

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After pulling Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 after an important Blackberry issue on March 15th, the Exchange team claim to have fixed the issue and and re-released the rollup. So, after re-releasing Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 3 after fixing potential store corruption issues, Exchange 2010 SP1 now also gets its own rollup re-release. Note that its officially a v3 release; I don’t know what happened to v2.

Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 3 v3 raises Exchange 2010′s version number to 14.1.289.7 (initial release was 14.1.289.3). The related knowledgebase article is kb2529939.

You can download Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup3 v3 here.

Fix for Outlook 2007 Personal Archive update

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As announced early February, the Office team has released a fix for the Outlook 2007 Personal Archive issues. This fix is also integrated in the Office 2007 Cumulative Update for February 2011 (kb2493732).

The description of the Outlook fix included in this CU can be found at kb2475891.Unfortunately, it doesn’t mention any specific Personal Archive issues.

You can request the individual hotfix here.

Outlook 2007 personal archives issue, fix in Feb’11 CU

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The Exchange team put a notice up today on their website on an important update for Outlook 2007 regarding personal archive support on Exchange 2010. Unfortunately, the post doesn’t contain any information regarding the issue itself, only that it may result in inaccessible archives. The fix will be included in the February 2011 Cumulative Update for Office 2007, which is to be released later this February.

This Outlook 2007 personal archive support is becoming some story. After the the initial update enabling this functionality, Outlook 2007 Cumulative Update of December (kb2412171), the update was re-released in January to include 3 fixes (see kb2485531). Now we can expect another fix for an undisclosed issue.

I suggest keeping an eye on the Outlook team blog for updates regarding this issue.

Outlook 2007 archive KB published, omits archive function

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After releasing the hotfix for enabling Exchange 2010 personal archives for Outlook 2007 users yesterday, the related knowledgebase article was published today (KB2458611).

What you might notice when reading the list of fixed issued is that the article doesn’t mention the included support for archives. Interesting. One might wonder what that implies from a support perspective.

Update: There are reports of issues with Outlook 2007 after installing update KB2412171, like Loss of Archive/Auto-Archive functions (not to be confused with personal archives), performance issues and Outlook Anywhere/NTLM issues.  Since KB2458611 is based on that update, so you might expect similar issues. More information here by Outlook MVP Ben Schorr.

Update: Official information confirms three issues have been identified with this fix:

  1. Secure Password Authentication issues when configured but server doesn’t support it (e.g. GMail);
  2. If you haven’t configured an Exchange account,
    1. Performance issues;
    2. Inability to configure AutoArchive for IMAP/POP3 or Outlook Live accounts.

More information on the Outlook Product Team blog here.

Update: The Microsoft Exchange team blogged about the December 2010 update for Office 2007 here. They state that “This update extends archive support to Outlook 2007”. In the same blog, the archiving functionality I described earlier here is hereby also officially confirmed.

Update: The Outlook team re-released the hotfix which addresses the 3 issues mentioned above (and on which the Outlook team blogged here). You can download the updated KB2412171 hotfix here.