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Forefront OCS

Sander van den Burg — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Heads up! Forefront Security for Office Communications Server in the x64 flavour has just been released on Technet Plus!

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TechNet Webcast: Protect Instant Messenger with Microsoft Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (Level 200)

Sander van den Burg — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:45:00 GMT

Language(s):	English.
Product(s):	Microsoft Forefront.
Audience(s):	IT Professional.


Duration:	60 Minutes
Start Date:	Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)


Event Overview
Microsoft Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) is a newly released product that provides Office Communications Server customers with comprehensive protection against malware and inappropriate content. This session describes how FSOCS secures an IM deployment using multiple engine malware scanning, file blocking and keyword filtering. Learn more about protecting IM with the RTM release of Forefront Security for Office Communications Server. Presenter: Mike Chan, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation Mike Chan is a Senior Product Manager for Forefront Server Security. Previously, he worked on Internet Explorer 7.0 and security for Windows Vista including Windows Defender. Mike has spent most of his career at Microsoft over the past 7 years on projects such as ISA Server 2004, VPN, and security update management. Previous to Microsoft, he was a developer at various companies including Sun Microsystems, VA Linux, Intel and Trilogy.

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Microsoft Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) RTM Now Available!

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:38:00 GMT

FSOCS provides fast and effective protection against IM-based malware for OCS 2007 and OCS 2007 R2 environments by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. FSOCS also helps reduce corporate liability by blocking instant messages containing inappropriate content.

This release includes:

64bit support
Support for OCS 2007 R2
Support for OCS 2007 Enterprise Edition server roles
Integration with OCS 2007 Access Edge role to protect corporate IM from external public IM threats
Localization in 11 languages

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