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How to keep filtering spam during Exchange 2007 migration - 2.Oct.2009 5:17:56 PM

blaked36

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I'm in the middle of migrating clients from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 over the course of a few weeks. MailEssentials (latest version) is installed on the 2003 server, which is also the perimeter server until the migration is completed. I have a few users moved over to the new server already, and they're not getting anything in their spam folder. This is consistent with the GFI Knowledge Base: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID001912 .

However, I want them to continue getting spam filtered into their spam folders. I see there's a workaround that involves using rules, but does that really apply here? The documentation says to use the Rule Manager on an Exchange server that doesn't have MailEssentials installed, but that's not what I want to do. I just want to make sure users who have already been moved to the new server continue to receive filtered spam. Once the migration is completed, it'll be a non-issue.

How have others who completed similar migrations handled this issue?

Blake

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RE: How to keep filtering spam during Exchange 2007 mig... - 3.Oct.2009 5:51:04 AM

RSP

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The only realistic way to filter spam into folders in a multiple exchange server environment is to tag the spam and use the Rule Manager on all servers, including those which have ME installed.

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