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Hi folks, I know I’ve blogged about this earlier, but I wanted to take time to note that the TechNet...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 04/16/2010

Greetings blog readers! I’m happy to announce that we will release a new antimalware engine update...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 04/08/2010

Enterprise Manager is a great way for Client Security customers to do centralized management and...

Author: Craig Wiand - MSFT Date: 04/02/2010

The final installment in our series on registry keys for FCS is a big one – there are a lot of...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 04/01/2010

Continuing in the registry key series, let’s talk about DisableEmailScanning. By default, the...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 03/19/2010

Trust me, one of these days you will need to exclude a process from being scanned by FCS. Or maybe...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 03/12/2010

Since the August 2009 antimalware engine update we support wildcards in path exclusions for...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 03/08/2010

Next up in our registry key series: setting definition update keys via policy. On the FCS TechNet...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 03/05/2010

Hey Folks, I wanted to point out a new resource available to you to find information, and, if you...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 03/04/2010

Next up in our registry key series: enabling definition updates upon service start. By default (out...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 02/26/2010

The Client Security BPA was posted to the download center shortly after FCS released. The initial...

Author: Craig Wiand - MSFT Date: 02/19/2010

Next in our series: how to enable scanning of reparse points, also known as junctions, or mount...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 02/08/2010

In response to a recent question via this blog, I’d like to explain a setting for antimalware...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 01/29/2010

And what the various files in the update do? And what the different types of udpates are? If you're...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 01/28/2010

We’re tracking an issue where the latest FCS antimalware client update won’t install on Windows 2000...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 01/14/2010

Last month in the Client Security blog the Forefront Client Security team announced the availability...

Author: Craig Wiand - MSFT Date: 01/12/2010

Happy New Year! Kurt Falde, one of our CSS Support Engineers, posted a great blog post about how to...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 01/04/2010

Greetings! Yesterday we released a new hotfix - this hotfix provides the following benefits: Adds...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 12/11/2009

Issue: Upgrade or uninstallation of Forefront Client Security (FCS) v1 is not possible, after an in...

Author: dhill@microsoft Date: 10/08/2009

Greetings! You may have seen this by now, but I wanted to reiterate here: Forefront Client Security...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 09/04/2009

After installing the most recent antimalware update (KB971026), some Client Security customers have...

Author: Craig Wiand - MSFT Date: 08/13/2009

Hey folks – we’ve got an exciting line up of sessions about FCS and Stirling that you will want to...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 05/08/2009

Hello folks! I'm happy to share with you another wonderful post from our friends over at the FCS CSS...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 04/01/2009

Hello FCS experts! I'd like to introduce you to Kurt Falde's blog. Kurt is a CSS Security Engineer,...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 03/05/2009

Howdy everyone! Just wanted to post a quick Yay!! For Yaniv! – Yaniv once again has posted some...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 01/29/2009

The FCS Nerds have a great blog post describing how to relocate an FCS client to a new management...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 11/14/2008

Today we posted guidance on using an existing WSUS server from an Configuration Manager deployment...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 10/20/2008

Hello FCS experts – and you know who you are. You are the ones who have figured out the tips and...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 09/24/2008

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of Forefront Client Security Service Pack 1 (SP1)....

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 08/26/2008

Did you know that Microsoft has an open source hosting website? Codeplex (www.codeplex.com) is a...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 08/11/2008

Hello, The Forefront and System Center teams recognize the importance of enabling customers to take...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 08/05/2008

For some more technical depth on the Solution Accelerators Forefront Integration Kit for Network...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 06/18/2008

The Forefront Client Security team is pleased to announce the public availability of the Microsoft...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 06/13/2008

The FCS team is pleased to announce support for: · Agent protection of Windows Server 2008 – Server...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 06/10/2008

We’ve seen a lot of questions from customers asking whether Client Security can be deployed and...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 12/21/2007

Hello everyone!! With the successful release of Forefront Client Security v1, it’s time to...

Author: csfanos Date: 12/04/2007

Forefront Client Security is an enterprise-level antimalware offering. As part of a total security...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 12/04/2007

Today we published another Security State Assessment (SSA) definition update on Microsoft Update!...

Author: AdrienneWu Date: 10/30/2007

While you’ve always had the ability to use MOM 2005 to monitor things like IIS and SQL for your...

Author: CherylB Date: 10/25/2007

Exciting news! Forefront Client Security is a finalist for Info Security's 2008 Global Excellence in...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 10/15/2007

Using WSUS is likely the easiest and most popular way to deploy the FCS client to computers. As...

Author: Craig Wiand - MSFT Date: 10/05/2007

Hello World, My name is Steve Scholz; I am a Technical Security Specialist for the US. Education...

Author: Steve Scholz- MSFT Date: 09/26/2007

And they have some incredible information on the impact of the "Storm" worm - and how MSRT is...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 09/26/2007

  A new fix has been released for FCSv1in how the system handles Overrides and...

Author: Saveen Reddy Date: 09/17/2007

Greetings! My name is Keith Newham. As a software developer in test for the Forefront Client...

Author: KeithN Date: 08/30/2007

Hi Folks, Here’s a FCS Best Practice from the Engineering team for those of you that have deployed...

Author: Eduardo Villasenor Date: 08/17/2007

My name is Adrienne Wu, and I’m a Program Manager on the Forefront Client Security (FCS) team. When...

Author: AdrienneWu Date: 07/24/2007

And I am fully recovered. In case you have never been to TechEd, it is one of the premiere learning...

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 06/21/2007

Hello Folks – well it’s been a while since there has been a post to this blog. The past few months...

Author: Anthony Chavez Date: 06/07/2007

Hello! My name is Kim and I’m a Technical Writer here at Microsoft for Forefront Client Security....

Author: Kimborly A. Ditto-Ehlert Date: 03/05/2007

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