During our preparation for ExchangeDefender Administrator and Service Provider daily reports we discovered a big performance issue in our reporting engine, big enough to cause us to rewrite the affected code immediately and alter our database schema. During the new engine rollout the reporting functionality was not at 100% and not all users had their daily reports generated. If your daily reports are set to be generated between 3:30 AM EST and 5:30 AM EST, your report may not have been generated. The reporting engine optimization / bugfix did not affect intraday reports.

We are in process of slowly resending the daily reports, they will arrive today. If your users need a report and it has not been delivered to them yet please remember that you now have multiple options:

– You can resend their daily report through the control panel on demand (report sent out within 60 seconds)

– You can tell the users how to access the quarantines directly (easiest and most efficient way) via https://admin.exchangedefender.com

– You can let their SPAM czar go through their mail for them.

We are currently considering not offering SPAM digest reports to end users anymore. The amount of information we can offer via email is very limited and inefficient. We can provide far more information (and make the user far more productive) if they looked at the reports over the web and are considering generating daily and intraday reports with summary data only and a link to the web interface – if there is enough junk mail to warrant a review, the user will click and see all the email that is waiting for them. If it is not, at least we will spare the user the trouble of their Outlook hanging for 8 minutes while they try to open an email thats more than 2 Kb in size. You will of course be given an option of sending users daily/intraday email summaries or full digest reports, with the summary of course being the default. We figure this may not be the most popular decision with some users to please let us know if you have an opinion.