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re: Install WSUS 3.0 - Step-By-Step

zeeshan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:40:28 GMT

Hi!

i'm installing wsus but it's giving me this message at the the end..

"There is a problem with this windows installer package. a program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected."

Plz help!!

re: Tamper Protection in Forefront Client Security

Fred Tealey — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:51:45 GMT

How do you deal with updates to the FCS client that have the need to start/stop the service while installing?

re: Install WSUS 3.0 - Step-By-Step

The Head — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:52:27 GMT

Hi,

If you are having problems with your clients not showing in the WSUS Console please follow these steps. Please note these steps will only work if you are working in an organisation where the clients have all been cloned.

Go to the client machine and do the following.

1. Start - Run - and type in net stop wuauserv

2. Start - Run - and type in regedit

3.Click on HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate then delete the SusClientId

then click on Auto Update and locate and delete the following keys: LastWaitTimeout, DetectionStartTime, NextDetectionTime. Once these are all deleted close all windows and do the next step.

4. Start - Run - and type in net start wuauserv

I find it helps giving the machine a reboot.

Then return to your WSUS Console and refresh and the clients should start showing up, i have found that sometimes they appear straight away but other times they may take a few minutes.

Good Luck

re: Configure E-Mail notifications for Forefront Client Security - Step-By-Step Guide

Robert — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:59:46 GMT

Sorry to double-post. If you wanted to do e-mail alerts WITHOUT a FCS Server (the /nomom option mentioned), you could use a 3rd party utility that monitors the event log. For example: www.netikus.net/products_downloads.html

There are plenty of others out there:

www.google.com

This might help with the events you would want to look for: technet.microsoft.com/.../bb643195.aspx

Realtime protection (malware activity) would be 3004, 3005, and 3006.

I'll stop babbling now :-)

re: Configure E-Mail notifications for Forefront Client Security - Step-By-Step Guide

Robert — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:41:56 GMT

This blog posting is referring to the FCS SERVER and not the FCS Client. There is no e-mail alerting functionality in the FCS Client. The clientsetup.exe /nomom installs the FCS *client* without the MOM agent.

Since alerting happens on the FCS Collection server (i.e. MOM), the comment about a FCS SERVER installation including MOM is accurate and extremely helpful.

re: Deploying Forefront Client Security Using SCCM 2007 - Step-By-Step

Michael — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:14:11 GMT

Thank for post, its been a great help. I am having difficulty though with the package installing Forefront. I created an uninstall script to remove Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 and it does so successfully. My script is as follows:

MsiExec.exe /norestart /q/x {3BAB4914-9CC1-4CC2-A3DA-56EF62DFD373} REMOVE=ALL

This uninstalls no problem but when I go to install Forefront, it bombs out. I even tried to put in a restart after the Symantec removal, but no go. It reboots into PE, but still bombs with same error. I created the package with the following command line:

clientsetup.exe /CG ForefrontClientSecurity /MS forefront.ourdomain.com

We have an OU created as "Forefront" under our current OU that gets updates. We only allow the software to be installed if the system is in that OU. I still can't get it to go. Any suggestions out there?

Thanks!

re: Install WSUS 3.0 - Step-By-Step

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re: Install WSUS 3.0 - Step-By-Step

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re: Deploying Forefront Client Security Using SCCM 2007 - Step-By-Step

Dominique — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:34:54 GMT

Hello,

Creating a Task Sequence to Removing existing AV solution and Deploy FCS Package

9....Go to Computer Management -> Software Updates -> Update Repository -> Updates -> Microsoft -> Forefront Client Security.

The screenshots does not show the same place...

under the path written I don't see anything for Forefront Client Security

I have something under

Computer Management -> Software Updates -> Update Repository -> Critical Updates

-> Microsoft -> Forefront Client Security

Computer Management -> Software Updates -> Update Repository -> Definition Updates

-> Microsoft -> Forefront Client Security

Computer Management -> Software Updates -> Update Repository -> Security Updates

-> Microsoft -> Forefront Client Security

Why is it like this?

I thought the Updates --> Microsoft --> Forefront Client Security would be a summary of all previous items???

Thanks,

Dom

re: Install WSUS 3.0 - Step-By-Step

JohnnyCash — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:14:36 GMT

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Thanks Again

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re: Deploying Forefront Client Security Using SCCM 2007 - Step-By-Step

Dominique — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:56:18 GMT

Hello,

In my Software Distribution > Packages > Microsoft - xxxx Forefront Client Security Agent... > Programs I am running the command line:

CLIENTSETUP.EXE /CG ForefrontSecurity /MS voforefrontcs1

It fails during the execution with the error:

Task Sequence: Forefront Install has failed with the rror code (0x00000657). For more information, please contact your system administartor or helpdesk operator."

Any idea?

Thanks,

Dom

re: Deploying Forefront Client Security Using SCCM 2007 - Step-By-Step

Mike — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:27:05 GMT

I followed this to a T, I still cannot get Forefront to install on the client machine. Any suggestions?

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