SQL 2012 support statement for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

May 10, 2012 in Forefront, Forefront, Forefront by Rod Trent

  Per the Forefront Endpoint Security Blog, SQL 2012 is now a supported database platform for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 – with one caveat: the following update must be applied on the server: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2683558 Read [...]

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FEP 2010 : Errors related to feature availability and configuration

April 6, 2012 in Forefront, SQL Server by Bechir Gharbi

  If you plan to move your FEP reporting role and the Datawarehouse to another server, be carful of the SQL Server edition. In effect, if you use SQL Server 2005 Enterprise for example on [...]

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Manage FEP agents with or without SCCM

November 16, 2011 in Forefront, SCCM 2007, Security, System Center Configuration Manager by Anoop C Nair

  Original Post – Link There’re some questions about FEP 2010 Standalone. Actually, it’s quite vague about the meaning of FEP 2010 Standalone. FEP 2010 means FEP 2010 Server that are integrated with SCCM 2007. [...]

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FEP 2010 : The report server cannot decrypt the symmetric key

November 10, 2011 in Forefront, Security by Bechir Gharbi

  When you change SQL services to use the Local System account then you start to install FEP Reporting role, you can see the following error : The report server cannot decrypt the symmetric key [...]

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FEP 2010 : Process ended. Exit code: 536870913

November 7, 2011 in Forefront, Security by Bechir Gharbi

  Description: You start to install Forefront Endpoint Protection server and you see the following errors : [Verbose] Process ended. Exit code: 536870913 [Normal] Installation(Install Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Security Client ) failed. [Normal]> [...]

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FEP 2010 : Managing FEP policies using GPOs with a 2003 Domain Controller

November 4, 2011 in Forefront, Security by Bechir Gharbi

  I’ve seen many of people asking if it’s possible to use the FEP2010.admx and FEP2010.adml when the domain controller is Windows Server 2003. The answer is YES but you need to do some steps [...]

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FEP 2010 Policies are not listed in Configuration Manager

November 4, 2011 in Forefront, SCCM 2007, Security, System Center Configuration Manager by Bechir Gharbi

  After deploying the FEP 2010 Server, you not be able to see the FEP Policies !!! So yes it can happen. The cause: The version of microsoft.configurationmanagement.managementprovider.dll file under <Installation path>\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminUI\bin has [...]

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Issue with SQL Analysis Services when moving from FEP 2010 Evaluation version to FEP 2010 RTM version

November 3, 2011 in Forefront, Security by Bechir Gharbi

  Based on this thread, the FEP administrator has removed FEP 2010 Eval version and has tried then to install the RTM version, but he was not be able and he has seen this error [...]

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FEP 2010 : Where can I find the scan log on the client computer ?

November 1, 2011 in Forefront, Security by Bechir Gharbi

  Many people ask the question (Customers, on TechNet Forums, …) and on Forefront Endpoint Protection TechNet documentation we don’t find the name of the file. People who worked on Forefront Client Security know the [...]

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FEP 2010 : How to remove the FEP policy on the client computer

October 31, 2011 in Forefront, Security by Bechir Gharbi

  Based on this question posted on the FEP forum, I decided to work on this case. So, the FEP administrator would like to know how to remove an existent FEP policy already applied on [...]

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