Lotus Guru

1 - Kevin:

Contacted my Trend Micro rep. Here is their official response.

"After checking further into your inquiry regarding Scan Mail Domino and 64 bit Windows NT servers, the answer is that it is not supported at this time."

The did not provide any insight as to when it might be.

There is always Linux. Trend Micro supports both 64-bit Linux, Solaris, and AIX. I can help your client change platforms, too. :)

Seriously, I've asked them to keep me updated on the release. When I hear, I'll pass it along to you.

Have a great holiday weekend.

--Bill

2 - The best advice I can give is "Don't run Anti-Virus and/or AntiSpam services on your Domino box".

Domino is an amazingly robust product but many of these other services aren't. They'll also be subject to a lot more updates and maintenance.

Either install a dedicated hardware appliance on your firewall or redirect your SMTP via a cleansing service. We did that about 3 years ago and have had no problems since.

3 - As a BP (IBM Bussiness Partner), we will move away from Symantec the next year. Since 1-2 years we begged Symantec to mark the templates as Advanced Templates, so that nobody could select these templates as a mailfile during creation. But Symantec didn´t heared. It happen quit often that such a mailfile is choosen and needs to be changed. ticking a small checkbox would solve the problem. But... no way... so we as a BP would recomend trend micro in the future. They hear what the customer need.

4 - Kevin -- just heard from my Trend Micro rep on the 64-bit ScanMail for Domino update. Here is the status:

"Just heard Q2 in 09. Beta will start in April."

-=-=-=-
Outside of Scanmail, you can also have a cleansing service, but it will only work well, if they cleanse outgoing SMTP mail as well. But know that Notes-to-Notes mail will not be touched, so a user can still upload a file from their home machine, say via a USB drive, CD, or webmail account--if allowed--and infect users internally.

So, one's strategy here, needs to take into account the whole situation and risk assessment to be effective. I have clients that have an appliance, others use Scanmail. It's situational.

Good luck.

5 - Thanks everyone for the feedback. With the launch of Lotus Protector as essentially an appliance-based approach to spam, viruses (viri?), et. al., it does seem the best approach is probably, as Gavin points out, leave the poor Domino server the heck alone. Then the server OS is irrelevant.

6 - Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 (just out) should be able to backup Domino 8 on Windows 64bit.

No support for R7 though.

Cheers,
Mark