SCCM sucked for us bigtime, even after bringing in MS. In our case, the lack of standardization caused a whole lot of issues in the field. IIRC, SCCM counts on WMI, and we had all kinds of problems trying to get that to work correctly on a lot of workstations.
I think it's even mediocre at the one thing we really wanted - remote administration. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 5:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Recommendations? A couple of consultant days and we'd be over the cost of any a/v licenses, so I don't have many issues with not using sccm just yet as I figure diving in and screwing it up will potentially cost us more. It's annoying as I'd quite like to try it, but I don't want to lose several days just to get to the point where I can do so. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 11 November 2011 12:34 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Recommendations? There are one or two third parties that offer management for Forefront without SCCM. That being said, and I don't know how large your organization is, but you may find it MUCH cheaper to pay a consultant to come in for a few days to help you set up SCCM (just for patching) than to sign a license for a different A/V. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://theessentialexchange.com/ _____ From: Paul Hutchings [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 7:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Recommendations? We actually have Forefront licenses via an MS agreement, I just don't think I want to try and get my teeth into SCCM right now just to administer it (I appreciate that SCCM does all manner of things but YKWIM, it's a bit of a monster). We do all the defence in depth stuff regards perimiter scanning, URL blocking etc. From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 11 November 2011 12:20 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Recommendations? I haven't dealt much with AV over the last year, but I liked Vipre Enterprise last time I did. However we did move from Symantec so anything would probably have been a vast improvement. I notice a lot of people are fans of the MS offerings now (Forefront, Security Essentials, etc, don't know the exact current brand names). Truth be known is that no AV can provide 100% coverage, and the ones that provide advanced heuristic detection are usually the ones with the bigger footprints. I'm personally a fan of coupling up your reactive AV with something like AppLocker from MS, if you're an AD shop, and obviously some good event log monitoring procedures. Defense-in-depth is usually the only way to stay fairly safe. YMMV, etc. On 11 November 2011 12:11, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: Our Avira Antivir license is up for renewal in a couple of months. 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