14 DAY TRIAL // With the recent release to manufacturing milestone of Exchange Server 2010 out of the way, Microsoft is currently gearing up to start offering the anti-spam filter updates for the product. According to Scott Roberts, software developer on the Exchange Sustained Engineering Test team, Exchange Server 2010 Anti-spam Filter Updates are going to be served in the following days, but there are additional changes that customers running Exchange Server will be able to notice in the coming days. The changes, also related to spam refreshes, will affect older releases of Exchange Server.
“For Exchange Server 2010, the Standard CAL spam definition updates will become available over the next couple of days and will be published twice a month from that point on. Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise CAL anti-spam definition updates will not be provided by Microsoft Update. They will be made available via Forefront Security for Exchange,” Roberts noted.
But in addition to Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft will modify the schedule for anti-spam filter updates for version 2003 and 2007 of the solution. As far as the IMF Updates for Exchange Server 2003 are concerned, customers running this specific version of the product will be able to grab the refreshes on the third Wednesday of each month. In this regard, Microsoft moves away from the current delivery timetable for IMF Updates for Exchange Server 2003, which were offered bi-monthly, on the first and second Wednesday.
“For Exchange Server 2007, the publishing of Anti-Spam updates for the Standard CAL will still be once every two weeks and the Enterprise CAL updates will still be offered daily,” Roberts added, pointing out that there are additional changes planned for Windows Server Update Services. Already, WSUS administrators have been able to notice that "Exchange Server 2007 and Above Anti-spam" is the new Product Classification "Exchange Server 2007 Anti-spam."
“Over the next few weeks, you will see this name change again once more to "Microsoft Exchange Standard Anti-spam Updates" once the change is allowed to go live. We also published the first Exchange Server 2010 category and you should be seeing that listed with the other Product Classifications. These changes were done to make the above possible,” Roberts said.