Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches

Chapter 16. Managing anti-malware with ConfigMgr

Dealing with malware is part and parcel of administering any environment of any size. Because of its prominence as a desktop operating system, Windows has always been a popular target for malware, and the responsibility for ensuring that appropriate countermeasures are deployed and maintained often falls to desktop and server administrators.

ConfigMgr has the ability to natively act as the center of your anti-malware solution, using System Center Endpoint Protection (or SCEP, for short). SCEP used to be Forefront Endpoint Protection (or FEP), which was a separate product, but this was integrated into ConfigMgr 2007 via a manual installation process. ConfigMgr 2012 and later bring both products ...