Spam Hell (Exchange 2007 Anti-Spam)

[norstarboston]

I am now fully on Exchange 2007. Problem is my spam software (Symantec Brightmail) is not 64-bit supported. So I installed the exchange 2007 anti-spam feature on my hub transport (I don't have an edge server). So my question is....How do i configure it? Is there a free service I can upload the config from? I just paid for brightmail and cannot pay for another service. However if that is the only option I will. Please advise. Thanks

 

[Zelandakh]

I don't know brightmail but if it functions on the SMTP virtual server, stick a Windows 32 bit box in the way with Brightmail on it and have that box deliver clean emails to Exchange.

 

[N0ktar]

You should be able to run 32-bit applications on your 64-bit server. It's the native 64-bit apps that you cannot run on a 32-bit platform.

 

[snootalope]

In order to utilize the anti-spam features you've setup, you must have an Edge Server, which can not run on the hub transport server.. has to be a completely separate box.

 

[ShackDaddy]

Snoot, you can run some of the Edge features on the Hub Transport server. There's a Psh script to install them. I'm assuming that norstarboston ran the install-AntiSpamAgents.ps1 script to do it.

Norstarboston, once you've run the script, you will have a new Anti-Spam tab in the Hub Transport config area. I would go in and look at the Content Filtering options. The Content Filtering SCL's database is updated regularly with WindowsUpdate and doesn't require a separate regular download.

Other than that, watch your inbound spam levels and see if having the anti-spam feature installed with the default settings makes a significant dent in your spam volume.

ShackDaddy
Shackelford Consulting

 

[snootalope]

I ran that script on my hub, configured the options under the anti-spam tab and couldn't for the life of me get them to apply to incoming messages.

I also heard it can be done, but I've yet to see it actually work on a single server.

Still trying though.... ??

 

[snootalope]

so do you guys know how to apply the anti-spam when it's on the hub server? I must be missing something cause it isn't working for me.

 

[snootalope]

nevermind, just found why it wasn't working for me. needed to run this command:

Set-TransportConfig -InternalSMTPServers: yourServerIP