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Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nicolai Henriksen
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nicolai Henriksen

Overview of this book

System Center Configuration Manager is now used by over 70% of all the business in the world today and many have taken advantage engaging the System Center Endpoint Protection within that great product. Through this book, you will gain knowledge about System Center Endpoint Protection, and see how to work with it from System Center Configuration Manager from an objective perspective. We’ll show you several tips, tricks, and recipes to not only help you understand and resolve your daily challenges, but hopefully enhance the security level of your business. Different scenarios will be covered, such as planning and setting up Endpoint Protection, daily operations and maintenance tips, configuring Endpoint Protection for different servers and applications, as well as workstation computers. You’ll also see how to deal with malware and infected systems that are discovered. You’ll find out how perform OS deployment, Bitlocker, and Applocker, and discover what to do if there is an attack or outbreak. You’ll find out how to ensure good control and reporting, and great defense against threats and malware software. You’ll see the huge benefits when dealing with application deployments, and get to grips with OS deployments, software updates, and disk encryption such as Bitlocker. By the end, you will be fully aware of the benefits of the System Center 2016 Endpoint Protection anti-malware product, ready to ensure your business is watertight against any threat you could face.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Why and how to use offline updates


It would be wise to have the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) share for offline updates as there might be machines with issues getting updated in the regular way.

If the Windows Update agent is corrupted or broken, then most likely neither Microsoft Update nor Configuration Manager can be used to update definitions. This is where both Microsoft Malware Protection Center and UNC shares come in. Neither of those channels depends on the Windows Update agent.

Just to be clear, though, that the Microsoft Malware Protection Center is not an offline update source.

How to do it…

You need to have the UNC update source enabled in the policy as shown following:

Definition Update Sources within the Antimalware policy

Then you hit the Set Paths button and define the server UNC shares where clients can fetch the updates.

Definition Update UNC Paths

The updates can be downloaded from this address and are updated regularly:

https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/definitions...