MS Forefront Endpoint Protection

2011-10-03 Thread Stefan Jafs
Is anyone using MS Endpoint protection, I'm thinking about switching from ESET, for 325 users. Anyone happy / unhappy, recommend not recommend? -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ---

RE: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection

2011-10-03 Thread Brian Desmond
...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection Is anyone using MS Endpoint protection, I'm thinking about switching from ESET, for 325

Re: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection

2011-10-03 Thread Joseph Heaton
I'm using it here, but in a pretty limited scope for the time being. We're migrating from Novell to Windows AD, and we have SCCM setup in the new domain, along with about 30 or so servers, all with FEP installed. Client installation is extremely quick and painless, once the SCCM client gets

RE: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection

2011-10-03 Thread Rod Trent
Lots of folks are migrating and getting positive results. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection Is anyone using MS Endpoint protection, I'm thinking about switching from

RE: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection

2011-10-03 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Subject: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection Is anyone using MS Endpoint protection, I'm thinking about switching from ESET, for 325 users. Anyone happy / unhappy, recommend not recommend? -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http

RE: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection

2011-10-03 Thread Paul Hutchings
Admin Issues Subject: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection Is anyone using MS Endpoint protection, I'm thinking about switching from ESET, for 325 users. Anyone happy / unhappy, recommend not recommend? -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http

RE: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection

2011-10-03 Thread Rod Trent
System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection Do you have SCCM in place already? That's probably the biggest barrier IMO as it's not a next, next, done job and is, arguably, overkill if you just want to deploy Forefront. _ From: Stefan Jafs [stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent

RE: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection

2011-10-03 Thread Paul Hutchings
is if a 3rd party management platform costs as much as renewing our current a/v... From: Rod Trent [rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: 03 October 2011 5:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection Truesec has an product that you can use

RE: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection

2011-10-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
, 2011 12:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection Thanks Rod, I've seen their website crop up before. No mention of pricing though which always has me wary. It looks interesting as we have ForeFront CALs under our licensing scheme, but I have no desire

RE: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection

2011-10-03 Thread Rod Trent
Yeah.particularly with something as comprehensive as ConfigMgr, take it slow. Roll out and use a single component at a time. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 1:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS Forefront Endpoint Protection