Administrating workflow for Endpoint Protection in Configuration Manager

When administrating and working with Endpoint Protection in SCCM you can follow this workflow list to make sure you have everything covered. You will find settings regarding Endpoint Protection in different places in the Configuration Manager Console so that it also makes sense in the management tool. Administrators usually find this easy when they are used to working with Configuration Manager and it gives great benefits and flexibility.

Getting ready

Make sure you have made a plan for your business on how you are going to deploy and manage Endpoint Protection. Also, undertake the required assessment to find what kind of antimalware or antivirus products might be installed on the machines and plan how to handle this.

How to do it…

Use the following workflow as a reference to help you enable, configure, manage and monitor Endpoint Protection in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Technet link: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh526775.aspx.

Now you might have another antimalware product in your environment from before, and you need a solution that can help you replace that. So you need a way to uninstall the product you want to get rid of and install Endpoint Protection in the same process to keep the clients secure. We will cover this more thoroughly in another chapter in this book.