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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
FCS KB 976668 and 976669 fail to install on Windows 2000 when the installation is run as Local System
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
Subject: Using Forefront Client Security and System Center Configuration Manager while Leveraging the Same WSUS Server Role
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
The Microsoft Forefront Client Security Health Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SP1 has been released!
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