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Managing ForeFront Endpoint with SCCM2012

I believe with SCCM2012, Administrator can Deploy ForeFront Endpoint Protection client, configure it, set up policy for it, update it and monitor it.

If I understand Microsoft also has ForeFront server. I wonder if ForeFront Server is designed also to deploy the EndPoint Protection client, configure it , and do all that SCCM2012 can do regarding ForeFront EndPoint Management.

Since SCCM2012 as well as ForeFront Server are both Microsoft, I wonder if I can just use SCCM2012 and do without ForeFront, when it comes to EndPoint Protection ???

Any help will be very much appreciated.

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jskfan

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I have not used ForeFront as Antivirus/Antimalware.
I have used TrendMicro in the past. it has a console , you can discover computers in Active Directory, then deploy the TrendMicro agent to computers. Computers will report back to TrenMicro server from which you can manage and monitor the function of TrendMicro Clients..

I wonder if ForeFront has the same concept ? if so then using SCCM seems like you can do the same thing from 2 different products : ForeFront Server and SCCM

The point I want to make is what is Forefront able to do that SCCM is not, and vice-versa, in matter of Antivirus and Antimalware.

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