I just updated our “Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection” client software, this in turn caused several of my scripts to stop working 🙁
Digging led to the discovery that the PATH has changed :-/ omg why change that…
Namely I ran two commands weekly on all our servers;
The first foreces Forefront to update it’s definitions straight from the Internet repository, and the second forces a full scan.
but the “Antimalware” part of Forefront (or at least MpCmdRun.exe) seem to have moved from;
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\Antimalware” to “”C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client”
But why 🙁 – anyhow, if you update your Forefront Endpoint Protection be sure to check any manual scripts you have running.
Downloading the updates manually;
You can still download the update file manually (80mb aprox), it’s the same file as for Endpoint Protection – get them here;
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/definitions/howtomse.aspx
or try this undocumented one (direct download link); http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121721
So last night I stumbled across this cool little gadget, its a usb device that can illuminate or flash in different colors all programmed by you either in code or via script’s etc.
So you could use it to flash when you got new mails or something similar or imagine if you put this device on the servers in your severroom and connected it up with your hardware monitoring – now the server would flash red if it had hardware problems – the options are endless.
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Forefront Endpoint Protection – fustrations
Antivirus, SecurityFree e-books
UncategorizedA good friend of mine (www.silents.dk) gave me a link to a collection of free Microsoft e-books;
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2013/06/18/huge-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-office-office-365-sharepoint-sql-server-system-center-visual-studio-web-development-windows-windows-azure-and-windows-server.aspx
Blink 1 – cool new gadget for your pc or the serverroom
GadgetsSo last night I stumbled across this cool little gadget, its a usb device that can illuminate or flash in different colors all programmed by you either in code or via script’s etc.
So you could use it to flash when you got new mails or something similar or imagine if you put this device on the servers in your severroom and connected it up with your hardware monitoring – now the server would flash red if it had hardware problems – the options are endless.
Read more here;
http://thingm.com/products.html
Buy it here (note postage to Europe is a bit steap);
http://buy.thingm.com/blink1
See the YouTube video here;
http://youtu.be/ZLvloI4RleI