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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

Providing access to reports


A malware report is only useful if the people with the power to address an issue can access the report. One of the paradigms of integrating your anti-virus with SCCM is the fact that many more people in an organization will now need access to SCCM. While the new role-based privileges alleviate this pain point somewhat, there will likely be some individuals with whom you just are not comfortable giving access to the SCCM console,who will need to access SCEP reporting data.

Luckily, this can be addressed by granting them access to the SCEP reports within SQL Reporting Services. This recipe will walk you through the procedure for doing so.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need to utilize an account that has administrator privileges for the SQL Reporting Services instance that is hosting your SCCM reports. This recipe is written from the perspective of being logged into the server that is hosting the reports and running IE locally. The procedure can also be done...