Problems when installing Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 on a TMG configured for Mail protection

TMG can be configured in a Mail protection role. In such configurations Forefront Protection for Exchange and Exchange Server (edge transport role) are installed on the same machine as TMG.

We have identified problems when installing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) that was released last week on such deployments.

Update: A fix for this problem is now available for download as part of Software Update 1 for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service Pack 1.

Root cause

SP1 made some changes to the SDK including removing some of the existing cmdlets (see more information here).

When Email protection is configured on TMG and Spam Filtering functionality is enabled, TMG uses one of the cmdlets that has been removed (get-antispamupdates) in SP1. As a result, Microsoft Forefront TMG Managed Control service fails to start and the event viewer will contain a message that the service terminated with the following error : %%-2146233088 :

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What we are doing to address this problem

The TMG team is fully committed to addressing this problem and is working on a fix which will be publically available soon. We recommend refraining from installing Exchange 2010 SP1 on TMG machines until the fix is available. We will publish another blog post when the fix becomes available.

Update: A fix for this problem is now available for download as part of Software Update 1 for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service Pack 1.

If you are already affected by this problem and need urgent assistance, please contact Microsoft support (http://support.microsoft.com).

Thank you for your patience,

Gabriel Koren

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 01, 2010
    Do you guys talk to each other at MS?  Like, ever?

  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2010
    Some updates about release date of TMG hotfix ?

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2010
    If you've already applied SP1 on a TMG server, is there any way to remove it?

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2010
    Is there already a release date for this hotfix?

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2010
    TMG guys some updates about hotfix release ?

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2010
    Update would be much appreciated... we've been dealing with a flood of spam for 2 weeks now.

  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2010
    it has been reported that the fix has been released for this issue and will be available on 9/21/2010

  • Anonymous
    September 22, 2010
    I have just patched with TMG SP1 and the rollup patch. Then applied Exchange SP1. Control service is now failing with the following error The Microsoft Forefront TMG Managed Control service terminated with the following error: %%-2146233079

  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2010
    same problem here ... "I have just patched with TMG SP1 and the rollup patch. Then applied Exchange SP1. Control service is now failing with the following error The Microsoft Forefront TMG Managed Control service terminated with the following error: %%-2146233079"

  • Anonymous
    September 27, 2010
    I have had this problem several times and it is always fixed after running the following command. Get-IPBlockListEntry | Remove-IpBlockListEntry It has something to do with another bug (no words from MS yet about this one) that stops the Managed Control from starting if you block list entires are to many. Hope this fixes you problem :)

  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2010
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2010
    SP1 Update 2  > support.microsoft.com/.../2454850

  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2011
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2011
    Hi there, is there any info available if we are facing similar problems when installing Exchange 2010 SP2?