Andrew: What are your thoughts on Office 365 and Forefront Protection for accessibility? I'm considering moving my Exchange hosting to Office 365. How is OWA in Exchange 2013? Thanks. Ryan ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson [andrew@hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:29 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Hi, I use a cloud based AV/AS system at work, although the one we use is quite expensive: www.mimecast.com I don't like AV on the Exchange server as it creates supporting headaches when applying updates in case the AV solution breaks something, I much prefer to leave it to a dedicated email scanning solution. Some other cloud based solutions I have used are as follows: Postini: www.postini.com - This is included in my hosted Exchange account. Spamtitan: www.spamtitan.com - this is a software spam appliance solution which works very well if you have an older machine you can dedicate to this. Sophos UTM: www.sophos.com - this is a very capable firewall product which can do a range of stuff including email scanning. I use this at some remote sites at work. I should also add that I am trialing Forefront for Exchange with bcab.org.uk as part of an Office 365/Exchange online solution. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Mika Pyyhkala Sent: 19 June 2013 17:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Hi, We have used cloud based solutions to guard against spam and viruses, instead of doing it on our Exchange server. A message first hits the cloud filtering gateway provider, is inspected, and only sent on to us if it passes the spam and virus filters. The message also never hits our environment if it is sent to a user without a valid email address. We used to use Postini, which is now part of Google. They appear to be changing the Postini service, so I'm not sure how it will work going forward, it seems like its being intigrated more with Google apps. The Postini administrative interface was quite accessible. We now use IronPort appliances by Cisco. We have our IronPort appliances in a Cisco cloud, so it is completely hosted by Cisco, although you can also have an appliance as your site. The IronPort appliance is in sync with our Active Directory LDAP, so we don't need to create users in IronPort. The IronPort appliance administrative interface is useable, although to access certain menus you have to route the jaws cursor to a link and mouse click on it. Best, Mika Pyyhkala Neighborhood Health Plan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of George Bell Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:14 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange I seem to be drawing a complete blank finding anyone who knows anything about Microsoft Forefront Protection for Exchange Server. Do any of you guys know anything at all about it? ESET is due a hefty fee for renewal soon, and at $1 per month, per user, this appears to be a decent solution. BTW, it's taken since the New Year, but we look like having resolved our SBS 2010 performance issues. It seems that the Exchange 2010 part did not like having one Outlook 2003 client for a short period early on, and messed up the RPC binding order. Just a pity that the error reports didn't point in that direction. George. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins This message contains information from Neighborhood Health Plan that may be confidential or privileged. This message is directed only to the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this email is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message and any attachments. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins