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Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Cookbook

By : Andrew J Plue
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Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Cookbook

By: Andrew J Plue

Overview of this book

Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection (previously known as Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012) protects client and server operating systems against threats with leading malware detection technologies. Built on Configuration Manager, it provides a unified infrastructure for client security and compliance management and "Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Cookbook" will help you get to grips with vital tasks for implementing this security tool. With the release of System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection, Microsoft is continuing its commitment to offering a cutting edge, enterprise- ready Anti-Virus solution. With its practical and easy to follow recipes, "Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Cookbook" fully prepares you for a simple, headache-free migration. This hands-on, practical cookbook will have you equipped with the knowledge to install and manage System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection like a pro in no time by following step by step recipes. You'll gain insight into a wide range of management tasks, such as building your SCEP infrastructure, deploying SCEP clients and building the perfect AV policies for your workstation and servers. You'll also benefit from a complete SCEP walk-through in a bonus appendix chapter. With "Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Cookbook" in hand, you will have the confidence to tackle essential tasks like deployment, policy and much more for SCEP.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Verifying that SCEP clients are installed on all systems


One of the biggest challenges for AV administrators is ensuring that every Windows PC or server on your network has anti-malware solution installed and running. For whatever reason, it's inevitable that someone will stick an unprotected PC on your network. Finding those PCs and remediating the issue quickly is vital.

The built-in SCEP reports will do a good job of maintaining awareness for the collections to which SCEP has been deployed; but unless you've elected to deploy SCEP to the All Systems collection, maintaining awareness for your SCCM environment as a whole is another matter. This recipe will first show you how to create a collection with a query that lists all of the PCs that have SCEP installed, and then show you how to build a second collection that shows you the PCs that are not in the first collection. This will tell you which systems do not have SCEP installed; this is sometimes referred to as creating a "does not" collection...