After you enable the Intelligent Message Filter in Exchange System Manager, to enable Intelligent Message Filter updates, you must create the ContentFilterState registry entry. To do this, follow these steps:

 

1.Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.

2.Expand the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange

3.In the left pane, click Exchange. Then, right-click in the right pane, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.

4.Type ContentFilterState, and then press ENTER to name the new registry entry.

5.Right-click ContentFilterState, and then click Modify.

6.In the Data value box, type 1, and then click OK.

7.Quit Registry Editor.

8.In the Services snap-in, restart the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service.

 

By default, when the Intelligent Message Filter is installed together with Exchange Server 2003 SP2, a new folder that is named MSCFV2 is created. The Intelligent Message Filter engine and the .dat file are stored in the following location:

Drive_Letter:\Program Files\Exchsvr\Bin\MSCFV2