SMEX 10 is here..

You can refer the details from here:
http://www.trendmicro.com/download/product.asp?productid=8

what's new?-Supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
-Microsoft Active Directory (AD) Integration
can create policy and assign to AD users
- Role Based Access
multiple admin access to different areas in the web console
-Event Tracking in Logs
since multiple admin can access the web console, thus the needs to track the activity for each administrator
-Installation enhancement
-IPv6 support
-Includes Web Reputation Filter
to check the URL from within the email content agaist the web reputation database. This is separate from SPS offering.
-Resource management
allow for tuning CPU resources during scanning

Upgrade checklist
- Server specs
2GB RAM, 10GB free disk space
- Software requirements
Also support Windows 2008 server, Exchange 2010
- Credentials requirements
Local admin
- Activation Code
- Housekeeping of the current logs
Delete older logs. Verify the folder ..\Smex\log is at minimum size.


Note:
1. no restart of MS Exchange is required. Relatively no downtime to the email system
2. if no issues, the upgrade will complete in 30 minutes

ScanMail for Domino 3.0 gets update from TMCM 5.0

By default your SMD will get the update from Trend Micro ActiveUpdate in the Internet. However, you can specify other Internet update source, namely TMCM.
key in "http:///TVCSDownload/activeupdate"
as the Internet update source.

By default also, your SMD will try to do secure update by means of going through https. So most likely that your update will fail if your URL for TMCM is http based. So make sure you add in the following:

Option I. Use the following command inside the server console:
set conf DisableSecureUpdate=1
The server does not need to restart when this option is used.

Option II. Follow these steps:
1. Open the notes.ini file.
2. Add the DisableSecureUpdate=1 entry as another line inside the notes.ini file. Make sure the last line of file is empty.
3. Save the file and restart the Domino server service.

Monitor the success of updates from the Domino server console.

Hope it helps.

Question on ScanMail for Lotus Domino

Question:
Does ScanMail for Domino supports clusters on different platform? i.e. Linux and Windows.

Answer:
Yes, SMD supports cluster on different platform. As long as Domino nodes are clustered, SMD can support it. Take note that Domino is not platform dependent then as well as with Scanmail (SMD). This will only replicate the database.

More details will be updated soon....Wait up!

Upgrade to Enterprise License

If you install your ScanMail for Exchange 8.0 on Exchange 2003, and you hold an Enterprise license, you will have the EQU feature. But what if, the initial installation was done on Standard license and then only you upgrade to Enterprise license? Will the EUQ feature activated automatically?

The answer is NO. When you go through the setup wizard, if you entered the Standard license code during the installation it would skip the EUQ configuration setting. Your SMEX console is missing with the 'Spam Maintenance' link under the 'Administration' menu. To enable the EUQ feature without reinstalling SMEX, you have to do the following:

1. From the console, enter the new activation code - Enterprise version
2. Edit the registry keys:
JunkMailIntegration value change to 0
EUQActivated value change to 1
3. Reboot your server
4. Login to the console Administration\Spam Maintenance. You will be prompted for Administrator's credential to activate the feature.
5. If the 'Spam Maintenance' link is still missing, you have to edit the following registry as well:
HKLM\System\ControlSet001\Services\EUQ_Monitor
Start value change to 2
Type value change to 16
6. Again, reboot the server

That should resolve the issue. :-)

Something that we discovered about the SSO feature

Recently while doing the hands on for TMCM 3.5 SSO feature, we discovered something interesting. SSO is the Single Sign On feature in Control Manager. This means when you logged in to the Control Manager and wanted to go to OfficeScan console for example, you don't have to key in the password for OfficeScan console again. It will automatically logged in for you.

We have OSCE, SMEX and TMCM installed on the same machine. Configure the Control Manager setting for both OSCE and SMEX (MCP based agent). From TMCM 3.5 console, the SSO for OSCE console works fine. It was not the same case for SMEX's. Initially I thought because we did not patch the TMCM neither SMEX therefore we received "console session expired" error message. After patching, I still face the same problem.

Thanks to Trend Support for the following explanation. :-)

"...I have tried to replicate the scenario that you have encountered and tried it to my test environment and resulted on the same result that you have encountered. The single sign on feature of TMCM did not work if you have installed both TMCM and SMEX 8.0 on the same machine but it doesn't mean that you can't install SMEX and TMCM in the same machine, only the feature SSO (single sign on) will not work. The true purpose of the feature SSO is able to access the management console of other trend product located or installed at the different machine...."

So guys, it is either SMEX on another machine or just access the console through separated console for SMEX located at Program>Trend Micro ScanMail for Exchange>ScanMail Management Console.