Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection Cookbook, Second Edition

Over 31 simple yet incredibly effective recipes for installing and managing System Center 2016 Endpoint Protection

About This Book

• This is the most practical and up-to-date book covering important new features of System Center 2016 Endpoint protection
• Gain confidence in managing IT and protecting your server against malware and other threats
• Configure and automate reporting features and also prepare yourself for a simple and pain-free migration process

Who This Book Is For

If you are a System Administrator or Engineer using System Center 2016 Endpoint Protection, then this book is for you. You should have a good background with Microsoft products in general, although no knowledge of Endpoint Protection is required.

What You Will Learn

• Explore the best practices for Endpoint Protection in System Center Configuration Manager
• Provision the Endpoint Protection Client in a Disk Image in Configuration Manager
• Get to know more about the Security Center
• Configure definition and engine client updates to be optimum for your bandwidth
• Make your application or server work with Endpoint Protection enabled
• Find out how to deal with typical issues that may occur with Endpoint Protection
• Know how to respond to infections that often occur

In Detail

System Center Configuration Manager is now used by over 70% of all the business in the world today and many have taken advantage engaging the System Center Endpoint Protection within that great product.

Through this book, you will gain knowledge about System Center Endpoint Protection, and see how to work with it from System Center Configuration Manager from an objective perspective.

We'll show you several tips, tricks, and recipes to not only help you understand and resolve your daily challenges, but hopefully enhance the security level of your business.

Different scenarios will be covered, such as planning and setting up Endpoint Protection, daily operations and maintenance tips, configuring Endpoint Protection for different servers and applications, as well as workstation computers. You'll also see how to deal with malware and infected systems that are discovered. You'll find out how perform OS deployment, Bitlocker, and Applocker, and discover what to do if there is an attack or outbreak.

You'll find out how to ensure good control and reporting, and great defense against threats and malware software. You'll see the huge benefits when dealing with application deployments, and get to grips with OS deployments, software updates, and disk encryption such as Bitlocker. By the end, you will be fully aware of the benefits of the System Center 2016 Endpoint Protection anti-malware product, ready to ensure your business is watertight against any threat you could face.

Style and approach

Build robust SCEP and AV policies and discover the new potential of exciting new features of SCEP 2016.

Nicolai Henriksen

Nicolai Henriksen works as a chief technical architect consultant presently and lives in Bergen, Norway, with his wife and three children. He has worked in the information technology consulting business for almost two decades, working and implementing systems in all kinds of various businesses from small to enterprises, mostly with products within the Microsoft family. But he has gained great experience and knowledge about many vendors and products. Nicolai's educational background started with electronic engineering, and he worked for a while as a technician. That has also been his great interest, besides computers. He started exploring computers in 1980 as a teenager and somehow then understood the meaning and future perspective that computer science had for the world. For the past 12 years, he has been dedicatedly working with System Center Configuration Manager in customer projects. Since 2012, Endpoint Protection got integrated into this great product and Nicolai says that by then the amount of companies using this product has increased enormously. Since 1990, when malware and computer viruses started to evolve, he started helping business to protect their computers with all kinds of antimalware products. This is the first book Nicolai has written, yet he has done several reviews on System Center books in the past couple of years, and has thought of writing a book for quite some time. It's not unlikely that we will see more books from Nicolai in the future. Nicolai also speaks in public conferences while he loves to teach and share his knowledge with others. The fact that people are willing to listen and you have burning desire to share without demanding anything back gives a great feeling according to him. He spends some time blogging, Twittering, and answering questions on Technet forums. In 2012, Nicolai was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), which only a few people in the world have achieved. He then specialized in the popular and great management product called System Center Configuration Manager. Nicolai has been balancing a life as a family man with intense creativity and passion within computer science for many years.