Forefront Protection Manager Gets DroppedMary Jo Foley got the official statement attributable to JG Chirapurath, senior director of the Identity and Security Business Group : “To align the product roadmap with this strategy, Forefront Protection Manager (FPM) will no longer be released to market. Instead, multi-server management for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) will be delivered through a streamlined solution for Microsoft messaging and collaboration workloads, on-premises and in-the-cloud, enabling higher productivity and lower management costs. “To address customer needs in the near-term, in the second half of this year Microsoft will deliver a Service Pack release for Forefront Server Security Management Console (FSSMC) that will expand support for multi-server management to the latest versions of FPE and FPSP, as well as a Forefront Server Security Script Kit that will allow IT administrators to use Remote PowerShell to configure and report on multiple deployments of FPE and FPSP throughout the enterprise. “As part of this strategy, we already announced that Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 will be built on System Center Configuration Manager and the newly announced Windows Intune follows this same approach of converging endpoint management and security for mid-sized companies.” Full story at source: Microsoft's Forefront 'Stirling' security suite faces yet another setback All about Microsoft ZD
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