Measures reported by FTMGEmailTest

Network administrators are constantly worried about blocking malware in e-mail and making sure that mail servers don't get flooded by spam. The Microsoft Threat Management Gateway is not only capable of removing dangerous messages and junk, but can also block threatening traffic before delivering it to the mail server. This can be achieved when the Exchange Edge Server and Forefront for Exchange are both installed on the TMG Server, thus making the TMG a truly effective e-mail gateway. Combined with Edge Server and Forefront for Exchange, TMG uses multiple anti-virus engines to scan all e-mails for viruses. When a remote computer tries to establish a connection, a new, reputation-based blacklist feature can block incoming spam before any data is sent to the e-mail server. TMG compares incoming messages against a frequently updated list of spam signatures when looking to block incoming spam messages. Network administrators are also expected to keep track on the number of email messages that are scanned and blocked for malicious content and the spam messages that are delivered to the mail server. The FTMGEmailTest test helps you in this regard!

This test monitors the Forefront TMG and reports the number of email messages that were scanned for malicious content, the number of messages that were blocked for the malicious content present in it and the number of messages that were categorized as spam.

The measures made by this test are as follows: