{"id":20627,"date":"2021-07-13T12:19:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T10:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=20627"},"modified":"2021-07-13T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T10:19:13","slug":"exchange-2016-2019-outlook-probleme-durch-amsi-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2021\/07\/13\/exchange-2016-2019-outlook-probleme-durch-amsi-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Exchange 2016\/2019: Outlook problems due to AMSI integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Office1.jpg\" width=\"55\" align=\"left\" height=\"60\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/13\/exchange-2016-2019-outlook-probleme-durch-amsi-integration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]A brief note for administrators of a Microsoft Exchange Server 2016\/2019. With CU21 (Exchange 2016) and CU10 (Exchange 2019) an AMSI integration was introduced to support third-party virus scanners. However, this integration causes severe problems with Outlook with various antivirus scanners.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>CU10\/CU21 and the AMSI integration <\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/vg04.met.vgwort.de\/na\/15460aea67e346a198823ee5718ba7af\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">I had pointed out in the blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2021\/06\/29\/kumulative-exchange-updates-juni-2021-verffentlicht\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cumulative Exchange CUs June 2021 released<\/a> that Microsoft has released the cumulative quarterly updates for Exchange Server on June 29, 2021:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 10 (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/5003612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KB5003612<\/a>)\n<li>Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 21 (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/5003611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KB5003611<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The download addresses are provided in the blog post linked above. Microsoft had indicated when it unveiled the quarterly cumulative updates for Exchange Server that they introduce new Exchange Server integration with AMSI (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/win32\/amsi\/antimalware-scan-interface-portal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antimalware Scan Interface<\/a>). The AMSI integration in Exchange Server provides an AMSI-enabled antivirus\/antimalware solution the ability to scan content in HTTP requests sent to Exchange Server and block a malicious request before it is processed by Exchange Server. The scan is performed in real-time by any AMSI-enabled antivirus\/antimalware solution running on Exchange Server as soon as the server starts processing the request. The details can be read in the blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2021\/06\/29\/kumulative-exchange-updates-juni-2021-verffentlicht\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cumulative Exchange CUs June 2021 released<\/a> and on the linked Microsoft pages.<\/p>\n<h2>Issues with AMSI integration<\/h2>\n<p>Now, however, it looks like this very AMSI integration can cause problems with various third-party antivirus scanners. Frank Z\u00f6chling has touched this issues within FrankysWeb in his German article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankysweb.de\/exchange-2016-2019-amsi-integration-sorgt-fuer-probleme-mit-outlook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exchange 2016\/2019: AMSI Integration sorgt f\u00fcr Probleme mit Outlook<\/a> in early July 2021. <\/p>\n<p>According to Z\u00f6chling, various antivirus scanners, which are used in conjunction with Microsoft Outlook, causes serious issues. Frank wrote, that there are cases, where Outlook will be in connection with the Exchange Server sometimes becomes extremely slow. As a result, it is no longer possible to work with Outlook. It has also been observed that Outlook startup can take several minutes. In addition, it is reported that Outlook repeatedly does not respond (especially when the cache mode is turned off).<\/p>\n<p>Frank explicitly mentions the McAfee Endpoit Security Client causing these error patterns. If the AMSI scan by the McAfee Endpoit Security Client is disabled by the administrator, the observed problems are gone again. The second external virus scanner mentioned is Sophos Intercept X for Server. There, too, such problems occur during the AMSI scan. <\/p>\n<p>It seems that only Microsoft Outlook is affected, but not OWA, EWS and ActiveSync. As a workaround, Frank suggests disabling AMSI scanning in the affected virus scanners. Details on this issue can be found in Frank's German article. Are any of you affected by this issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]A brief note for administrators of a Microsoft Exchange Server 2016\/2019. With CU21 (Exchange 2016) and CU10 (Exchange 2019) an AMSI integration was introduced to support third-party virus scanners. However, this integration causes severe problems with Outlook with various antivirus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2021\/07\/13\/exchange-2016-2019-outlook-probleme-durch-amsi-integration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,1547],"tags":[869,47,395],"class_list":["post-20627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-software","tag-exchange","tag-issue","tag-outlook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}