Updated: July 15, 2020 (May 16, 2016)
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Support for most Forefront antimalware products ended Dec. 31, 2015.
Endpoint Protection for protecting both client and server OSs remains supported and can be managed using System Center Configuration Manager—administrators must use the Configuration Manager console for central management of Endpoint Protection security updates and policies. Endpoint Protection was updated to 2012 R2 at the same time as the other System Center products and will be updated frequently in conjunction with Configuration Manager. The next update drops the version number of previous releases and is simply called Endpoint Protection (but is shown as vNext here). This version arrived in Dec. 2015 and was updated in Mar. 2016. Windows Server 2016 (now expected in the third quarter of 2016) includes Windows Defender, which has similar capabilities to Endpoint Protection.
Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010, the follow-on to the Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server), was discontinued as of Dec. 1, 2012. Mainstream support for TMG 2010 and Extended support for ISA Server 2004 ended on Apr. 14, 2015. TMG and TMG Medium Business Edition (MBE) use the Threat Management Gateway Web Protection Service, which accesses Microsoft Reputation Services (a cloud-based URL categorization service), to help protect users from browsing to malicious Web sites. Support and updates for the Web Protection Service ceased after Dec. 31, 2015. TMG is used by the Unified Access Gateway (UAG).
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