Updated: July 9, 2020 (June 14, 2010)

Security Products Overview

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration services and client software. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s... more

Major changes to the plans for the Forefront line of products were announced in Apr. 2010. The planned “Stirling” wave of integrated products and suites will not be released. Specifically, Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 will not be offered as a stand-alone product but will instead be an add-on to Configuration Manager in late 2010 and may be merged into Configuration Manager in the next release in 2011. Administrators will be able to use the Configuration Manager console to centrally manage security updates and policies.

In addition, the previously announced Forefront Protection Manager console will not be released. Instead, the existing Forefront Server Security Management Console will be updated with a service pack in the second half of 2010.

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.

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