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Privilege Management Integration with System Center Configuration Manager?
27 May 10 08:07 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

If this is something you’d like to see – or like to learn more about – take this quick survey: http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=17715

Filed under: Security, System Center, ConfigMgr 2007, Privilege Management

SMS 2003: ITMU v3 requires two passes, two reboots, to deploy April 2010 security patches
10 May 10 11:01 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

  We've been getting some calls about this one so I thought it deserved a mention here.  If you're having some ITMU related issues with...

Filed under: Patch Management, Security, System Center, SMS 2003

Over 5 hrs of free expert training on the Audit Collection Services
22 June 09 05:26 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

Secure Vantage is hosting the training videos for the entire ACS Master Class Series on their web site. The free online ACS Master Class Series provides...

Filed under: Security, System Center, OpsMgr 2007, Secure Vantage

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 SCW Roles and Security Hardening Guide for Windows Server 2008 - myITforum.com
07 June 09 05:57 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

  The Operations Manager 2007 Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) Roles and Security Hardening guide can be used to help further protect and harden...

Filed under: Security, System Center, OpsMgr 2007, Documentation

Recommendations for antivirus exclusions in MOM 2005 and OpsMgr 2007
06 November 08 08:56 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

Exclusions by process executable: Creating exclusions based on the executable can potential be very dangerous in that it limits the control of scanning...

Filed under: Security, System Center, OpsMgr 2007, Antivirus

How did ConfigMgr help you during the critical patch rollout?
24 October 08 02:53 PM | rodtrent | 1 comment(s)

I’ve heard from a few others that deploying the critical update the past couple days really made ConfigMgr shine.  They say that ConfigMgr has completely...

Filed under: Community, Patch Management, Security, System Center, ConfigMgr 2007

Security Compliance Management for SCCM/DCM
21 October 08 01:26 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

Beta Download Available : http://www.microsoft.com/securitycompliance . Feedback welcome! The Security Compliance Management toolkit provides customers...

Filed under: Security, System Center, ConfigMgr 2007

Supported configurations for using WSUS to distribute Forefront Client Security Definition updates within SCCM 2007
17 October 08 11:47 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

Want to distribute the Forefront Client using ConfigMgr 2007?  Microsoft has posted a new KB Article you’ll want to review: http://support.microsoft...

Filed under: Security, System Center, ConfigMgr 2007, Forefront

Network Access Protection Design Guide is live!
10 October 08 12:15 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

Complete with community content enablement… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd125338.aspx

Filed under: Security, System Center, NAP

Network Access Protection Design Guide available October 9th
08 October 08 09:00 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

From the NAP blog : Hey NAP fans! Great news from the documentation front: The Network Access Protection Design Guide from our intrepid technical writer...

Filed under: Security, System Center, NAP

NAP Gets its own Article section on myITforum.com
25 August 08 08:38 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

Richard Dixon (Microsoft) kicks off the new article section with some information on how to choose the best spot in the hierarchy for the System Health...

Filed under: Security, System Center, NAP, myITforum.com

Guidelines for Anti-Virus Exclusions for Microsoft Applications
07 July 08 01:01 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

The purpose of this document is to provide guidelines for anti-virus configuration parameters, depending on the software installed on a server. These guidelines...

Filed under: Security, System Center, ConfigMgr 2007, SMS 2003, Antivirus

Secure Vantage posts updated ACS Administrators Quick Reference and a new ACS Database Capacity Planning Spreadsheet
24 June 08 04:11 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

The Quick Reference guide has an updated calculation for determining database size calculation: Secure Vantage ACS Administrators Quick Reference  ...

Filed under: Security, System Center, OpsMgr 2007

Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Network Health
16 June 08 05:54 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

Richard Dixon and Michael Kelley have put together a comprehensive technical case study and webcast on using ConfigMgr 2007 to extend network health. Read...

Filed under: Networking, Security, System Center, NAP, ConfigMgr 2007

Microsoft Security Advisory (954474) – affects ConfigMgr 2007
14 June 08 09:19 AM | rodtrent | 1 comment(s)

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Blocked from Deploying Security Updates Microsoft is investigating public reports of a non-security issue that...

Filed under: Patch Management, Security, System Center, ConfigMgr 2007