Re: Centrally managed antivirus

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looking at the MS page for Forefront, am I reading it right that it does not
cover W2008 Server 64-bit?


On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 18:05, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Buying 5 licenses _initially_ is no big deal, as long as we can buy them
> > singly after that.
>
> Yep.
>
> > When you speak of administering via Group Policy, this means the
> PCs/servers
> > must be joined to the domain, correct?
>
> They should be. You can configure Forefront using local group
> policies, but they're messy. Symantec and McAfee solutions deal with
> non-domain joined machines much better than the Microsoft solution.
>
> >  Our sales reps laptops have never
> > been joined to the domain.  Those laptops will soon be Win7 Home Premium
> > which I don't think _can_ be joined to a domain.  In any case, as long as
> > there is a central admin server, there's a way around that.
>
> You can upgrade those to Win7 Pro (Anytime Upgrade, Retail) or Win 7
> Ent (Windows 7 Upgrade + SA). The latter is more expensive, but gives
> you the option to use DirectAccess (if you have the necessary
> infrastructure) and BitLocker (if the Laptop has a TPM, or you're
> willing to deal with the USB-Stick solution). BitLocker is great for
> laptops, since it gives you full disk encryption without hassles, at a
> low cost (it's part of Win 7 enterprise).
>
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