Exchange 2016 – Event ID 6027 FIPFS

In a new Exchange 2016 environment I can see Event ID 6027 being logged quite frequently in the Application Event Log:

MS Filtering Engine Update process was unsuccessful to download the engine update for Microsoft from Primary Update Path.
Update Path:http://amupdatedl.microsoft.com/server/amupdate
UpdateVersion:0
Reason:”There was a catastrophic error while attempting to update the engine. Error: DownloadEngine failed and there are no further update paths available.Engine Id: 1 Engine Name: Microsoft”

As this server is behind a proxy server I need to configure it using the netsh winhttp command:

netsh winhttp set proxy proxy-server=192.168.0.254:8080