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| nickw |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 07:07:06 AM
Do you use Microsoft's Forefront products? |
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| lacrosseboy |
Posted - 11/10/2009 : 2:14:51 PM
I use FOSE with spam/virus protection and it's pretty good. BUT, when it comes to TLS, they stink right now. Many, many problems and one very angry major customer.
There is a new role out this month that will help, I hope but inbound TLS is still a big issue. |
| Curt |
Posted - 11/10/2009 : 12:42:35 AM
I used Symantec and Forfront together.
Symantec only did an incomplete job. Forfront helped more.
But not perfectly.
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Originally posted by mikepiet
The problem with just picking up and switching AV vendors is the pain is removing the old one from production. If an admin really has nothing too horribly wrong with their current product, why switch?
Forefront might be a great product but the work it would take to completely remove McAfee from our organization just doesn't make it worth it.
Like Jim stated, if you are needing a new product, then by all means, but otherwise, not much incentive to move off, unless it was free ala WSUS.
Michael
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| Curt |
Posted - 11/10/2009 : 12:40:19 AM
I did in my last network at SCG. I used the spam filters for Exchange.
Man they caught a good deal of spam. Price were right. We were a gold partner.
I ran it on a seperate server from our three Exchange 2003 Servers.
I ran it on a virtual.
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| joe_elway |
Posted - 11/22/2007 : 04:10:49 AM
If I was building a new n/w or taking over one where I had one of the dreaded solutions then I would most definitely look at ForeFront. I installed the first MS release of Antigen ina client site and it was simple to deploy. It was mostly unchanged from teh Sybari release. I haven't had a look at ForeFront for Exchange yet but my guess is the story remains the same. The suite that gives you multiple engines (Antigen licensing) allowed a really clever deployment of 10 engines.
I played with ForeFront Client Security a lot while it was a beta (doc on my blog). For medium (with branch offices) or large organisations I think it's perfect. Really nice architecture (based on fewer centralised AV servers) and a doddle to deploy and manage. It uses GPO for configuration and Windows Update (AU, WSUS, CM2007) for updates, usess a very simple console and is stuffed full of status views and reports based on SQL Reporting Services. |
| robsanders |
Posted - 11/21/2007 : 6:59:40 PM
For one of our clients we've decided to implement the ForeFront solution for Exchange. Since we were moving from GroupWise, we really had to rethink the whole anti-virus environment. And I must say, I'm really impressed with the product. Problem is, at most clients we already have completely managed solutions, so there is no need to change that. But for new implementations I would really consider ForeFront. |
| mikepiet |
Posted - 11/14/2007 : 11:43:03 PM
The problem with just picking up and switching AV vendors is the pain is removing the old one from production. If an admin really has nothing too horribly wrong with their current product, why switch?
Forefront might be a great product but the work it would take to completely remove McAfee from our organization just doesn't make it worth it.
Like Jim stated, if you are needing a new product, then by all means, but otherwise, not much incentive to move off, unless it was free ala WSUS.
Michael |
| jadgate |
Posted - 11/14/2007 : 3:50:45 PM
Upon closer examination, this isn't going to work for us. We are a Lotus Notes environment, and Forefront assumes you use Exchange (from what I have found). Wonder if using Exchange as a front end "gateway" with LN Domino at the backend would work....
Jim |
| netmarcos |
Posted - 11/14/2007 : 2:05:51 PM
From what I have seen of Forefront, the answer to most of your questions is yes. It is well worth a look.
http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/prodinfo/overview.mspx
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| jadgate |
Posted - 11/14/2007 : 10:58:39 AM
This is a timely topic, because where I work we need to replace our AV product in 2008, the existing product is no longer supported by the vendor. I think we are willing to look at it, esp. if we can leverage our existing MS contract (e.g. obtain it at no additional cost).
We are an enterprise environment, so the issues for us will be:
-what sort of reporting tools come with this product?
- if it has reporting tools included, how configurable/customizable are they?
-can it all be managed centrally from a console (rollouts, approvals, report generation).
- in addition to AV, does it also include antispyware, IDS, and firewall capabilities?
- what sort footprint does the client agent leave on the desktop?
Anyone have enough time/experience with Forefront to speak to these issues?
The other thing is that Microsoft's track record in this area is mixed, this is essentially a version 1.0 product, even if they did buy an existing vendor. They don't have any "street cred" yet.
What about Antigen, did anyone use it before it became assimilated into the Borg collective? Thumbs up on it/down on it?
Jim |
| kopman |
Posted - 11/14/2007 : 08:38:01 AM
To be honest I haven't read much about Forefront but it is on my list of things to do.
We are using NOD32 for AV on the desktops and some servers. Other servers still have an older CA product installed and our Linux mail gateway (ESVA virtual machine) is using ClamAV. |
| ukinahan |
Posted - 11/13/2007 : 11:19:13 AM
Interesting results so far...
What are you guys using for Anti Virus solutions currently |
