Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Microsoft Client Protection

I have to install and implement Microsoft Client Protection, otherwise known as Forefront.

In terms of the server, there are 4 roles that the server can have. The management role in which the user can view the state of the whole managed network and investigate the status if the clients, collection role, wherein the server simply takes in all the data from all the machines and keeps it in a database, reporting role, where the server is used to report on the data collected by the collection role of the server, and finally the distribution role, where the server sends out updates for malware definitions to all the clients using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

That last role scares me. We don't have WSUS running here at the moment... but it will be!

WSUS still isn't working.

The Public Beta expires on June 30, 2007.

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