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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

Configuring automatic sample submission


How can I configure automatic sample submission so that my users don't have to take any actions?

Microsoft actually gets 2 million new file samples daily according to the report in September 2016, which is pretty awesome. It ensures that it's continuously improving every day. They have around 80 billion files of metadata to work with.

In the first versions of System Center Endpoint Protection, when suspicious software or malware were found, it would popup and ask the user to allow it to transfer the sample to Microsoft Cloud. There were two problems with that: first, the users got scared and called IT Support. Second, the ones who were not scared and wanted to hit the Yes button couldn't because they needed administrative rights.

Then the Microsoft team made a workaround with a policy that you could push out through Group Policy or in another way.

How to do it…

So, if you're still in System Center Configuration Manager 2012, you need to get this registry...