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Forefront Protection Server Management Console 2010 Update

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My name is Andrew Schiano, and I work in Test for the Forefront Protection team. I would like to tell you a little bit about the soon-to-be released Forefront Protection Server Management Console 2010 (FPSMC) .FPSMC provides centralized management for the Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange (FPE) and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) servers in your environment. FPSMC is expected to be available as a free download in Q4 2010.

FPSMC provides multi-server management through a browser-based interface, and supports the following features:

Signature redistribution

The signature redistribution job is used to deploy antivirus signature updates to the FPE/FPSP servers in an environment. The most efficient way to update engine signatures on all your servers is to create a redistribution job to download them to the FPSMC server. The FPSMC server is then used as the retrieval point for all the other servers in the environment.

Policy (configuration) deployment

FPSMC supports deploying a centralized set of configuration settings to one or more FPE or FPSP servers in your environment. This is accomplished by configuring one of your FPE/FPSP servers to the desired configuration and then exporting these settings in xml format. The xml file is then imported into FPSMC, which can deploy these same settings to your other FPE/FPSP servers.

Patch deployment

FPSMC supports deploying FPE and FPSP roll ups and service packs. Patch packages can either be .MSP or .EXE file types.

Centralized incident reporting

The Incident Detection report presents data about the number of malware incidents and filter matches over a period of time on one or more managed servers. This includes the five most common malware types detected in your organization and the most recent detection date and time.

Centralized spam reporting

The Spam Detection report presents data about the number of spam messages blocked by FPE. This includes a pie-chart breakdown by filter type and a line graph showing the number of spam messages detected over time.

Centralized engine versions reporting

The Engine and Definition Versions report presents data about the antivirus engine versions and definitions on selected servers running FPE and FPSP. This report compares the current engine versions of the managed servers to determine which, if any, of your signatures are out of date.

Quarantine management

FPSMC supports retrieving quarantine data from managed Forefront Protection servers for local analysis and management, including delivering Exchange quarantine and restoring SharePoint quarantine.

Integration with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE).

If you are using FOPE in your organization, you can use FPSMC to access the FOPE Administration Center to monitor your email flow. FPSMC provides access to the FOPE home page, quarantine, reports, and mail tracing facilities.

Auto discovery of servers

On a nightly basis, FPSMC will automatically detect new FPE and FPSP servers that have been added to your network.

Exchange Clusters -- CCR, SCC, and DAG 
FPSMC supports clustered Exchange servers, including E14 Database Availability Groups.

FPSMC will initially be available in English.  Localized versions in all 11 languages (Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, and Spanish) will be released at a later date (to be announced).

Thank you for your time, and I hope you found this article helpful.

Andrew Schiano

Software Development Engineer in Test

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hello Alan, Here is the setup documentation: technet.microsoft.com/.../gg507728.aspx Release Notes outlines some known issues: technet.microsoft.com/.../gg507685.aspx I also found this forum question that could be helpful: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../bad7a86b-4b16-48cf-9d29-23d6673c182a Tony T.

  • Anonymous
    October 28, 2010
    Hi, Any chance you can give us more of an indication of date, we really need to get access to this ASAP, is a beta available cheers

  • Anonymous
    November 01, 2010
    I know that FSSMC cannot be installed on a x64 server.  Can you tell me if FPSMC will be installable on a x64 server? Thanks

  • Anonymous
    November 09, 2010
    Hi, I am testing at the moment Forefront protection 2010 I downloaded from microsoft site. In my case I installed it on the Edge Exchange 2007 SP2. Everything looks nice, however I have one question regarding the possibility to see in detail all the messages blocked by this solution. Can you please let me know where I can see this or what I need to activate to be able to see all these logs? Regards,

  • Anonymous
    November 29, 2010
    Hi Andrew Schiano, FPSMC, will be very helpful, Can you please let us know EXACT date  where FPSMC is expected to be available for download.

  • Anonymous
    December 01, 2011
    Hi Andrew, can you tell me what kind of foot print FSE will leave on the hub servers in a 2007 environment? Specifically, I know agents are deployed but are log kept locally on the hub servers or can they be stored on the console server?

  • Anonymous
    December 03, 2012
    Hi Andrew Im having issues installing the Management Console. Atfter the SQL Setup, I get: Product: Microsoft Forefront Protection Server Management Console -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.