Help! Forefront Engines update timed out while downloading updates and keep logging Errors !.

Well, I had this problem myself a while before, when i was awaiting updates to be downloaded and get installed on the Forefront Server Security For Exchange, i found that many engines updates are not applied and error message in the application log stating that it's just timed out ..

the mystery behind that is the default time out value is 5 minutes, which is fine with many organizations, and everything is cool, but sometimes with some latency and network problems it just don't allow the updated to be graped in that assigned time .. so what we will do here is modifying the registry and increase that time.. and don't worry it don't need any restart to your server or services. just do it right !

open RUN and type RegEdit go to this path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Forefront Server Security\Exchange Server

and make a new DWORD there with the name of EngineDownloadTimeout , right click the key and choose Modify and put there the required value, let's say we will make it 10 minutes, so write there 600 ( it's counted in seconds) and voila it's done

Just note that this is still applicable on Forefront for sharepoing still with the same Reg path but with changing Exchange by sharepoint ..


Good Luck