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First Steps: Configuring Exchange Online Protection

November 9, 2017 by Paul Cunningham 23 Comments

A walk-through of configuring Exchange Online Protection to prevent malware and email spam in an Office 365 tenant.

Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection, Antispam, Antivirus, Exchange Online Protection, First Steps

Installing Exchange Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016

September 28, 2016 by Paul Cunningham 38 Comments

How to install Exchange Server 2016 CU3 or later on Windows Server 2016, including pre-requisite installation and antivirus exclusions for Windows Defender.

Exchange Server Antivirus, Exchange 2016, PowerShell, Scripts, Windows Defender, Windows Server 2016

Exchange 2016 Antivirus Exclusions

May 12, 2016 by Paul Cunningham 12 Comments

It is a recommended practice to configure any antivirus software running on Exchange servers to exclude specific paths, processes, and file types.

Exchange Server Antivirus, Best Practices, Exchange 2016, PowerShell, Scripts

Advanced Threat Protection Notes from the Field

April 21, 2016 by Paul Cunningham 30 Comments

Here’s my experience using the Advanced Threat Protection features in Exchange Online Protection to protect my Office 365 tenant.

Exchange Server Anti-Spam, Antivirus, Exchange Online Protection, Malware, Office 365

PowerShell Script to Generate Antivirus Exclusions List for Exchange Server 2013

July 22, 2015 by Paul Cunningham 24 Comments

A PowerShell script to generate the list of exclusions to configure in antivirus software running on Exchange Server 2013 servers.

Exchange Server Antivirus, Exchange 2013, PowerShell, Scripts

MSExchangeRepl Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

July 9, 2013 by Paul Cunningham 3 Comments

An Exchange database may failover when the Exchange replication service is unable to access a transaction log file that is in use by another process.

Exchange Server Antivirus, DAG, Database Availability Group, Exchange 2010

Vircom modusGate and directQuarantine Review

May 1, 2011 by Paul Cunningham 2 Comments

modusGate by Vircom is an email security product that includes anti-spam and anti-virus protection, as well as a range of other useful security and administrative features that are configurable to an impressive depth.

Reviews Anti-Spam, Antivirus, directQuarantine, Exchange 2010, modusGate, Vircom

End of life for CA InoculateIT AV Engine in Microsoft Forefront products

September 24, 2008 by Paul Cunningham 1 Comment

From the Forefront Server Security blog: Engine and definition updates for the Computer Associates (CA) InoculateIT engine will end on September 29th, 2008. On January 16th, 2007, the Computer Associates (CA) InoculateIT engine was combined with the Computer Associates VET engine. Since the engines were merged, Microsoft has continued to provide engine updates for the […]

Blog Antivirus, Forefront

Symantec Endpoint Protection is a Network Performance Threat

August 13, 2008 by Paul Cunningham 12 Comments

I recently removed the Network Threat Protection component from the Symantec Endpoint Protection installation on all of the servers and desktops on a customer network.  Here is a list of things that happened as a result: Backup throughput increased by 50% (using Symantec Backup Exec 11d) Exchange backups stopped failing due to the remote agent […]

Exchange Server Antivirus, Symantec

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