Every Anti-Virus has a mechanism called tamper protection that helps administrator keep users from mishandling there antivirus settings and services. Forefront Client Security only offers basic control over what the user can or cannot do with the FCS Client Console on his client machine. What the FCS System doesn’t provide is a built-in mechanism to protect FCS services from being stopped or prevent FCS from being removed by the user. It’s true that some of these are possible to prevent by not giving...
This step-by-step guide illustrates how to deploy Active Directory® Group Policy objects (GPOs) to configure Windows Firewall with Advanced Security in Windows Vista® and Windows Server® 2008. Although you can configure a single server locally by using Group Policy Management tools directly on the server, that method is not consistent or efficient when you have many computers to configure. When you have multiple computers to manage, create and edit GPOs, and then apply those GPOs to the computers...
Enforcing Group Policy Security Settings (including some in-depth Registry “hacks”), and some of the most common scenarios where security settings do not behave as they appear. There are numerous security settings that can be configured in a single Group Policy Object. These settings range from controlling the Administrator account to controlling the LDAP client signing requirements. With so many security settings, it is important to understand how the function and where there might be a behavior...