Re: Microsoft Forefront

["Fisher, Matthew C" <FisherMC () WOFFORD EDU>]

IMO it does pretty good as far as catching things but still lets some stuff slide here and there. As far as resources 
it consumes; it's no better or worse than some other big names AVs I have used/tested. Deployment and maintenance is a 
breeze and almost hands-off once you get it all setup and going. I have some reports emailed to me on a schedule and 
unless I see something out of whack in them I never even bother with it cause it runs itself. I also use WSUS for the 
definition updates (along with all other updates) since it's a little easier and more hands off than using SCCM for 
updates...at least in my opinion.

That said there have been some occasions where the Help Desk has had a machine that was in bad shape and needed to use 
another tool like malware bytes to remove some things that SCEP didn't catch.

If you use SCCM you can setup some custom configuration baselines to help monitor certain things that will help 
troubleshoot a SCEP client that is not working correctly as well so this is another plus to having it with SCCM .

Matt

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Also, can anyone give any comments as to how effective Microsoft Forefront endpoint solution is as an antivirus 
solution (in addition to performance, deployment, maintenance...) ?

Thanks,
Greg

Greg Schmalhofer
Information Security Coordinator
Millersville University


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We also have switched to SCEP and SCCM.  It seems to work better than our previous solution and is a lighter weight 
client.  SCCM took longer to setup than ePO, but even so it wasn't that big a deal to do.


Angelo D. Santabarbara
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Siena College
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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Fisher, Matthew C <FisherMC () wofford edu<mailto:FisherMC () wofford edu>> wrote:
We use SCEP with SCCM and it works well. The price is great and its really easy to manage using SCCM. With SCCM you  
have good built in reports and it allows you to create custom reports as well if you like to look at reports.

Matt

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Greetings Everyone,

Does anyone currently use the new Microsoft Endpoint 2012 product in their environment? If so can you share your 
thoughts on the product in terms of performance, deployment, maintenance, etc. The price point (free) makes it a pretty 
enticing option to replace Symantec Endpoint Security which has been less than stellar.


Shaun L. Gray, GSEC
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