Hi all and happy late new year…
Today I want to introduce a new software by Microsoft called System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 which is going to be released soon. This is a really good software helping you centralize the endpoint security in your environment. It will be used in conjunction with System Center Configuration Manager to bring a lot of exciting new security features. As far as the information about the product says, there are going to be endpoint clients distributed out to clients through which clients could be connected to and therefore managed by the central management console which is installed on a server.
One of the interesting features is that if there are already anti-virus applications installed on the client computers, the endpoint client applications will automatically remove all those third-party anti-virus or anti-spyware softwares and will install itself instead. SCEP 2012 will also provide support for non-Microsoft clients. All in all, SCEP 2012 will allow you to combine the two concepts of security management and client management. Usually one of them is missing in almost all the solutions we see in the market and Microsoft believes with SCEP 2012 they can bring both security and client management in the same window for the admins.
There has not been so much information about it yet but there is a great interview video you can watch which is all about SCEP 2012.
You can also download the Release Candidate from this .
Best Wishes