In the blog of last week about the search feature I described how you are able to use the search tab in the ribbon and which options are there. This blog in the series about the Configuration Manager 2012 Console will have a focus on the available criteria and options while you are searching for objects.
All posts tagged System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection
29
Jul09
JulSince the new version of Configuration Manager, Forefront Endpoint Protection has become a full class citizen of Configuration Manager 2012 and has been renamed to System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection. In an earlier blog I already wrote about the functionality, in this blog I will mention all the out of the box policy templates that come with Endpoint Protection 2012 and how to import them.
A couple of weeks ago I saw a tweet about that someone was playing with the RC2 version of Configuration Manager 2012. Since then no news about this version, until now! Today is during Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud webcast System Center 2012 Release Candidate released. As part of this suite also System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RC2 is released. You can download the suite here.
Part of the System Center 2012 RC suite is:
- System Center 2012 Unified Installer RC
- System Center 2012 App Controller Beta
- System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RC2
- System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager RC
- System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection RC
- System Center 2012 Operations Manager RC
- System Center 2012 Orchestrator RC
- System Center 2012 Service Manager RC
- System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager RC
17
JanToday Microsoft has released the new licensing model for the System Center 2012 suite. (thanks to @Syliance) A couple of highlights are the following. Regarding Server Management Licencing there are only two different licences available:
- Datacenter (Maximizes cloud capacity with unlimited Operating System Environments (OSEs) for high density private clouds)
- Standard (For lightly or non-virtualized private cloud workloads)
Buying one of those editions gives you the right to use the complete System Center 2012 suite. The members of the System Center 2012 Suite are:
- Configuration Manager
- Service Manager
- Virtual Machine Manager
- Operations Manager
- Data Protection Manager
- Orchestrator
- App Controller
- Endpoint Protection
Regarding Client Management Licencing there are three different editions available.
- System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (per user/device)
- System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection (per user/device)
- System Center Client Management Suite (per user/OSE, composed of Data Protection Manager, Operations Manager, Service Manager, and Orchestrator)
There is no information available about the pricing of the 5 different licencing options, we will have to wait until the System Center 2012 suite is general available. Nevertheless the new much more simple licencing model makes me happy 
, and I think that System Center 2012 will be widely adopted!
Read more information about this new licencing model and all of the benefits at the System Center 2012 Licensing website and here
07
Nov
With the release of Configuration Manager 2012 Release Candidate, Microsoft also integrated System Center Endpoint Protection (was Forefront Endpoint Protection) with Configuration Manager 2012. Very welcome enhancements if you ask me, let’s see how this works. Wally Mead showed us the feature last week, let’s see I remembered everything correctly ;)
Peter Daalmans
Technical Consultant and Enterprise Client Management (Configuration Manager/Windows Intune) MVP with Microsoft partner IT-Concern with a primary focus on the System Center Suite and Microsoft Exchange. Writing blogs and sharing his knowlegde on ConfigMgrBlog.com.
Co-author of Mastering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager book from Sybex.
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