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Security Products

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Major changes to the plans for the Forefront line of products were announced in Apr. 2010. Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 is an add-on to Configuration Manager. Administrators are required to use the Configuration Manager console to centrally manage security updates and policies.

For protecting Microsoft application servers, Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint were released at the same times as their corresponding servers in Nov. 2009 and May 2010, respectively. Future releases of these protection products will likely coincide with new versions of their respective servers in 2013. These two Forefront products (but only these two) can be managed centrally using Forefront Protection Server Management Console 2010.

In Mar. 2009, Microsoft released Forefront Security for Communications Server, which supports Communications Server 2007 and 2007 R2. (The previous product, Antigen for Instant Messaging, is not compatible with Communications Server 2007.) A new version, called Forefront Protection 2012 for Lync Server here, will likely appear in 2012 for protection of the latest release of Communications Server, called Lync Server 2010.

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