Posted by: kurtsh | October 9, 2009

RELEASE: Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

image Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server was released to manufacturing yesterday!  Availability of the released product will be on November 9th.

We believe we’ve shipped a high quality product with great improvements over the previous release, including:

  • Premium antispam protection, with 99% detection rate, less than 1 in 250,000 false positives, and backscatter filtering
  • New user interface with dashboard view of detection statistics and health monitoring
  • Antispyware scanning provided by the Microsoft Antimalware Engine
  • Integrated provisioning and management of Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) for hybrid, on-premise/hosted protection
  • Support for Exchange 2010, Windows PowerShell, and Hyper-V
  • Standardized installation using MSI installer

For more information on Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server requirements and a download of the prior Release Candidate, visit:

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