Wiley Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 For Dummies 978-0-470-39866-1 User Manual

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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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