Explains how to download the latest antimalware definition updates for Microsoft Forefront Client Security, Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 or Microsoft. This site uses cookies for analytics, personalized content and ads. By continuing to browse this site, you agree to this use. Learn more. Trusted Zone is a list of objects Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 for Windows does not monitor or control. The list is formed by a user. For example, you can add an. Microsoft releases emergency patch for crazy bad Windows zeroday bug. The vulnerability has been dubbed the worst Windows remote code execution flaw in recent memory. Using SCCM Distribution Points for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2. Definition Updates. THIS METHOD HAS BEEN DEPRECIATED AS OF FOREFRONT ENDPOINT PROTECTION UPDATE ROLLUP 1. PLEASE SEE FOREFRONT ENDPOINT PROTECTION 2. UPDATE ROLLUP 1 USING YOUR DISTRIBUTION POINTS FOR FEP DEFINITIONS WITH THE SOFTWARE UPDATE AUTOMATION TOOL FOR THE NEW METHOD. As you are probably aware by now, Forefront Endpoint Protection 2. FEP 2. 01. 0 integrates with SCCM to provide you with one console to manage your entire environment, leveraging your SCCM infrastructure to help deploy anti malware protection. One of the problems we have with SCCM is the ability to leverage the Software Updates capabilities automatically. For each software update you wish to deploy, you have to add it to a deployment package as well as a deployment. This is fine for monthly security patches, however this process isnt very good when dealing with anti virus updates since most vendors release updates multiple times a day. FEP doesnt help matters much with this issue, and a lot of customers have had issues with not being able to leverage their SCCM distribution points. FEP gives you three methods to deploy definitions WSUSMicrosoft Update. UNC File Share. I wont go deep into the pros and cons of each, but suffice it to say that none of these will leverage your distribution points unless you create UNC shares and point your clients to your DPs, which is possible with different policies, but somewhat of a pain. Leveraging your DPs. So how can we leverage our DPs if the above three options dont allow us to do so The way we accomplish this is rather simple Have a script to download the definition files. Create software distribution packages that point to the location where our definitions have been downloaded and update those on an 8 hour schedule since FEP updates are released 3 times a dayCreate collections of machines with out of date definitions both 6. Ill explain this a bit more in a second. Create a recurring advertisement to install the definitions. But before we do all that, we have to understand how the definition process in FEP works. Forefront Endpoint Protection Definition Files. FEP has 4 definition files. Full definition file Base 6. MB as of this writingBinary Delta Definition 1 1. MBDelta Definition 1 1. MBNetwork Inspection Service Definition File only used on clients where NIS has been enabledFor each of these files, there is an x. Your full definition file is generally between 4. MB in size and will normally be installed after a new FEP Client install. The binary delta definition file is generally 1 1. MB in size and is used if your client is more than a month behind in its definition updates. The delta definition file is generally 1 1. MB in size usually smaller than the binary delta definition file and it installed typically on a daily basis released 3 times a day. More information about the definition files can be found at http support. One thing to keep in mind about the definition files is that these files can be downloaded manually EXCEPT for the Binary Delta Definition files. Im still trying to track down a link to download these files, and when I do, Ill make sure to post an update here. Putting This All Together. So now that we know the files were dealing with, lets put this together. First thing we need to do is setup a process to download the definition files automatically. Create the following directories Im using the C drive in this example, but you can use any of those, just make sure to modify the script I reference belowC FEPDefinitionsUpdatesdeltaamd. C FEPDefinitionsUpdatesdeltax. C FEPDefinitionsUpdatesfullamd. C FEPDefinitionsUpdatesfullx. C FEPDefinitionsUpdatesNISamd. C FEPDefinitionsUpdatesNISx. C FEPDefinitionsscriptDownload the following script and save it under C FEPDefinitionsscriptEdit the script to download the definitions if you dont plan on using the C FEPDefinitions locations. Create the Scheduled Task. Go to Start Programs Administrative Tools Task Scheduler. In the Actions Pane on the right select Create TaskFor each of the tabs, use the following screen shots conditions and history dont need to be modifiedGeneral. Triggers. Actions. Settings. Once the task is setup, go ahead and run it and verify that the definitions are downloading to the locations you have specified. All of the folders you created before should have definition files now. Creating the SCCM Packages. So now that we have the content downloaded, we need SCCM to be made aware of it and download it on a schedule to our DPs. In total you will need to create 6 packages. Full and Delta definitions as well as x. NIS definition if you plan to use NIS. I will walk you through creating one package, you should repeat the process for the other 5 packages. In the SCCM Packages node in the SCCM Console, right click on the Packages node and select New and then select Folder. Name it FEP Definitions. Right click the FEP Definitions folder and select New and then select Package. In the new package wizard, input appropriate information for this package and click next. In the data source screen, check the This package contains source files box. For source directory, type in servernamesharenameFEPDefinitionsUpdatesdeltaamd. Leave Always obtain files from source directory checked. Check the box to Update distribution points on a schedule. Click the Schedule button. For the custom schedule, select a custom interval to recur every 8 hours. Note Make this 8 hour schedule to be 1. This will allow the schedule task some time to download the definitions before SCCM tries to create a new package. Check Enable binary differential replication. Click Finish. When all is said and done, your General and Data Source tabs of your package should look like this. General. Data Source. Repeat the above steps for the other 5 packages 3 packages if you arent planning on pushing out NIS definitions. Once the packages are all created, make sure to send each package to your distribution points. Create the Programs for each Package. Ill walk you through creating a program for the x. I walked you through above. Drill to Software Distribution Packages FEP Definitions Microsoft Corporation FEP Delta Definitions x. Programs. Right click on Programs and select New Program. In the New Program Wizard, type in a name for the program. For the command line, click browse, and select the mpam d. Add a q as a command line switch, so your command line should look like mpam d. Click Next. Click Next at the Requirements screen. In the Program can run drop down box, select Weather or not a user is logged on. Click Next. In the Advanced screen, select Suppress program notifications. Click next all the way to the end of the wizard. Repeat the above steps for each package you made in the previous section. Creating Your Collections. So now that we have created the packages to update every 8 hours since the FEP definitions are released 3 times a dayand as a side note, no, I dont know the time of day they are released, I have a pending question on that, so for now, just do it 3 times a day, now we need to target an advertisement to a collection, however we have an issue. We basically have 3 definition types, we have a full update which is about 6. MB in size as of this writing and we have a delta update which is about 3. MB in size as of this writing as well as a NIS full definition update which is also about 3. MB in size. We know that the 6. MB update is for new clients as well as clients that have definition updates older than 2 months. We know that the delta definitions are for machines that have been updated with a definition within the last month. We also know there is a binary delta definition file which we dont have the ability to download, or at least Im unaware of the location of the BDD file for clients that have definitions that are at least a month old, but arent older than two months. So based on all this information, we know that we dont want our clients to download 6. MB if its unnecessary. We only want those who are older than a month to download the full definition update because we dont have the BDD file we have to use this criteria, if we had the BDD file, wed have a collection of machines with definitions older than a month but not older than two months. In order to find the machines to target with these updates, we need to make some DCM rules.
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