System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Unleashed

Creating Custom Client Settings and Antimalware Policies

As a best practice, you should create custom client settings for endpoint protection and target them to specific and applicable areas of your organization, using collections to assign these custom settings. You can create multiple custom client agent settings for endpoint protection to target computers with settings suited to its function and purpose.

You need to create separate antimalware policies for clients and servers; you don’t want a standard desktop antimalware policy applied to your mission critical Microsoft SQL Server. What you do want is the antimalware policies intelligently configured to ignore or bypass certain Windows processes or file locations and file types, helping avoid ...