Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

The name FPE stands for Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server. FPE provides fast and effective protection against malware and spam by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. It also integrates with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange to provide the defense-in-depth benefits of hosted and on-premise filtering in a single solution.System requirementsx64 architecture-based with:
Intel Xeon or Intel Pentium family processor that supports Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T), or
AMD Opteron or AMD Athlon 64 processor that supports AMD64 platform
Server software
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
2 gigabytes (GB) of free memory in addition to that required to run Exchange server. For more information about the memory requirements for running Exchange server, consult your Exchange server planning documentation.
2 GB of available disk space. This is in addition to the disk space required for Exchange server. Utilizing a server as a redistribution server for updates requires additional disk space.
A four core server with 2.0 GHz or higher processors is recommended. Lower performing servers are supported, but message throughput is decreased.
Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 6.0 SP1
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 SP 1 Windows Communication Foundation or Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (automatically installed with Exchange Server 2010). If you are installing the Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Gateway, .NET Framework 3.
Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. If these controls are not already present, they will be installed during the FPE installation process.
Windows PowerShell 1.0
Client Access Server (CAS). Required only for use with the on-demand scan with Exchange Server 2010.