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Exchange Server Mail Stuck on Queue due to Microsoft Bug 01/01/2022
There is a live Bug going on in On premise Exchange. To resolve the issue Please Disable your Antimalware filter just for now so you can start your communication again. Please note that this is not f...
I only ran the two steps below, and the email started to flow after.
1. Disable-Antimalwarescanning.ps1
2. restart the transport service
I did not run Set-MalwareFilteringServer <ServerIdentity> - BypassFiltering $true instead of the above two.
Will the next Exchange patch release installation re·vert
the antimalware agent back "on," as on the default installation, and again we have to disable the agent?
It’s one or the other, not both - I personally recommend bypassing instead of full disable so you’re still receiving updates. Your malware scanning will stay on bypass for each exchange server until you set it back to disabled and restart the transport services again. But it’s entirely up to you on what you do…
I can’t believe Microsoft support hasn’t released anything official about this at this point.
I can’t believe Microsoft support hasn’t released anything official about this at this point.
- How funny that IF this was a cyber attack (which it is not) that your recommendation is to bypass/disable filtering.
If it was a cyberattack, I think you’d want to leave filtering enabled even if it meant no mail flowing for a while…- Apologize for my mistake identifying as cyber attack . Actually the behavior pattern was like that . anyway lucky it was a bog not an attack
Corbett_Endersmy thoughts exactly. however I stumbled on the fix from an old article that recommends bypassing it. I've also kept an eye on the firewall, and nothing out of the ordinary.
- Good Idea
