About the Administration Center

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Applies to: Forefront Online Protection for Exchange

The Administration Center is a Web portal that you, the service administrator, use to manage settings for your company, its user accounts, and the Forefront Online Protection for Exchange and the optional subscriptions that your company has purchased. In the Administration Center, you can do the following tasks.

  • Activate and manage your domains
  • Manage your company information and settings
  • Add and manage users and accounts
  • Create and manage spam, virus, and policy filters
  • Create and manage message policy rules
  • Configure quarantine settings
  • Monitor and trace message activity
  • Monitor overall service health and stay informed about planned outages, virus outbreaks, and other events that affect your service
  • Access training and reference materials
  • Get technical support

The Administration Center User Interface

The following tabs at the top of the Administration Center provide access to the rich set of features within FOPE.

  • Understanding the Information Tab: The Information tab displays service announcements and alerts, and filters reports at the company and network levels.
  • Understanding the Administration Tab: The Administration tab provides you with a single point of administration for all of your Microsoft® Forefront® Online Protection for Exchange services. From this tab, you can manage settings for: Forefront Online Protection for Exchange; the services to which you have subscribed; and policy rules for your company, domains, and users.
  • Understanding the My Reports Tab: With the My Reports tab, you can create and run reports for all of your services.
  • Understanding the Tools Tab: From the Tools tab, you can trace messages and view service events by using the Audit Trail feature.
  • Understanding the Advanced Tab: If you are an administrator with permission to more than one company in the Administration Center, you have access to the Advanced tab. It displays a list view of all of the companies that a user has permission to view along with a tool to check SMTP connections. This tab is not displayed if the user has permission to view only one company.