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Forefront Server Security Management Console Hotfix Rollup 3 Available Now!

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We are very happy to announce that the Forefront Server Security Management Console (FSSMC) Hotfix Rollup 3 shipped on July 30th. Here are the new features and some important information for the rollup. For a complete list of the fixes included in the rollup and to obtain it, see the following Knowledge Base article “Hotfix Rollup 3 for Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console”:

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/973919

New features in the Rollup

  1. Antigen version 9 with Service Pack 2 incorporates new anti-spam technology through a partnership with Cloudmark. FSSMC Rollup 3 now supports Cloudmark engine update redistribution and Engine Version Reports.

    Note Rollup 3 only supports Redistribution Jobs for Cloudmark engine updates and not signature updates. The Cloudmark anti-spam engine receives its signature updates directly from the vendor’s site and not through Microsoft. This means that the signature updates are not distributed through the FSSMC. An engine update refers to updating to a new version of a scan engine (which replaces the old version), whereas a signature update refers to new signatures being added to an existing scan engine.

    For more information about this feature, visit the following Microsoft Web page:

    https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/forefront/serversecurity/dd940095.aspx

  2. FSSMC now can automatically provision the scan engines on managed Antigen and FSS servers. It does so by using the scan engine updates that are deployed to the managed servers through the Signature Redistribution Job. This feature gives customers the latest protection against malware by extending the updating capabilities of Antigen version 9 and Forefront Server Security (FSS) products. This feature can quickly notify users of the availability of a new threat scanning engine, or a planned change in the existing scan engines. These notifications advise administrators on how to make appropriate changes to their product configurations before any changes take effect. The notifications are registered in the Antigen and FSS event log entries and can also be configured for e-mail delivery through the "Virus Administrators" notification group.

    For more information about this feature, visit the following Microsoft Web page, and then click the Engine Revision Overview and FAQ hyperlink:

    https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/forefront/serversecurity/dd940095.aspx

Important Information:

When upgrading from a previous version of FSSMC, you must re-deploy the FSSMC Deployment Agents to your managed servers. For information, see Deploying Agents under Getting Started in the FSSMC User Guide.

Holly Kipp

CSS Senior Security Support Engineer

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    server-date for everyone's nice to have something nice to update recommend

  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2010
    Can somebody please explain to me why on earth FSSMC will not install on W2K8 64-bit? Exchange 2007 with Forefront is only supported for production on the 64-bit platform... this way I still need to maintain and support an "ancient" operating system just to run FSSMC :(

  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2010
    None of the Forefront Server version 10 wave of products has native 64-bit support.  Forefront Server for Exchange is able to run in WOW64 mode so that it is compatible with the 64-bit version of Exchange 2007.  64-bit IIS does not support running 32-bit applications thus FSSMC’s requirement to run on a 32-bit operating system. Native 64-bit support is now available with Forefront Protection for Exchange (version 11) with enterprise management provided by Forefront Protection Manager later this year.