After a lot of work, I am very pleased to finally announce the release of "Forefront Client Security Deployment Tool". FCS Deployment Tool is a free toolkit provides additional deployment capabilities in addition to those which are available with the RTM Version of FCS . This tool gives network and security administrators the ability to scan their network and/or AD, discover existing installed Anti-Virus solutions (currently supporting Mcafee, Symantec and Trend-Micro) that are already...
For the first time, you can deploy FCS definitions in an automated process using SMS 2003. with this procedure you can download the definitions from the security portal and distribute them using SMS in an automatic way without any human intervention. Notice that this procedure can be used in a similar way in SCCM2007 (or any other distribution method) as well. If you have any questions, feel free to call :-) Part 1: Creating a scheduled job for definitions download. 1. Download DefinitionsDownload...
One of the issues with FCS Client installation is that you have two separate versions of the FCS client agent (32/64Bit) and you need to deploy each one of them to the appropriate computers. that means that if you want to deploy FCS client agent using anything different then WSUS, you need to create two different installation packages/script. Here is a script for installation of FCS Client, that checks for operating system version (32/64Bit) and installs the appropriate version accordingly. You can...