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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

Fixing SCCM client health issues


Anyone reading this book who has administered any of SCCM 2012's predecessors will likely agree that the biggest headache was keeping your installed client base healthy; especially when working with SCCM clients running on Windows XP, which had a nasty habit of corrupting their WMI data.

With SCCM 2012, Microsoft has addressed many of issues with the inclusion of two monitoring components, Client Activity and Client Check. As an SCEP administrator, your ability to monitor malware activity is directly affected by the overall health status of SCCM clients.

This recipe will walk you through the process for utilizing Client Activity and Client Check to resolve some common issues. To illustrate this point, we will be working on workstation which seems to be no longer communicating with SCCM.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need to be using an account that has SCCM administrator privileges.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Log in to your SCCM CAS server and...