Datasheet

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Chapter 1: Getting to Know Exchange Server 2007
Feature Category Type Chapter
in Book
Description
Anti-Spam
Stamp
Reliability,
speed, or
security
Antispam
and
antivirus
7 Provides a reason for stamp-
ing a message as spam.
Administrators can use this
information to assess the effec-
tiveness of filtering.
Two-Tiered
Spam
Quarantine
Reliability,
speed, or
security
Antispam
and
antivirus
7 Makes it harder for spam to enter
the workplace. At the first level,
the administrator checks mes-
sages for spam content. If the
administrator releases the mes-
sage, the message is converted
into plain text and passed to the
junk mail folder in Outlook, where
the user can perform a second
level of spam checks.
Consoli-
dated
Manage-
ment
Feature Antispam
and
antivirus
4 Centralizes the Edge Transport
server role and rules manage-
ment with the rest of Exchange
to make it easier to manage the
entire Exchange Server setup.
This feature also makes it possi-
ble to send alerts from Exchange
Server to Microsoft Operations
Manager (MOM) and produce
reports of filter effectiveness.
Attach-
ment
Filtering
Reliability,
speed, or
security
Antispam
and
antivirus
7 Provides a means of reject-
ing attachments based on file
extension and content, without
rejecting the entire message.
Edge
Protocol
Rules
Reliability,
speed, or
security
Antispam
and
antivirus
6 Checks for problematic con-
nections based on rules. This
feature makes it possible to
reject some connections before
an antivirus signature becomes
available.
Antivirus
Stamp
Reliability,
speed, or
security
Antispam
and
antivirus
6 Adds information to the mes-
sage that defines which engine
performed the antivirus scan-
ning, which signature the engine
used, and when the engine last
scanned the message.
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