Retest of Microsoft Forefront antispam capabilities show some improvement

Clear Choice TestAfter our January test of Test of Microsoft Exchange 2007, Forefront add-on, Microsoft called our antispam results into question.

After several discussions with the Exchange team, we did indeed discover a significant issue with the test as executed. We had installed Exchange 2007 and its ForeFront security software in 32-bit Windows test environment, a test configuration blessed by the Microsoft team who completed the onsite installation. What we, and they, didn’t realize is that 32-bit versions of Forefront don’t get antispam updates from the company. Based on this “no-fault” error, we agreed to retest Forefront and Exchange using the 64-bit versions of the applications.


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