My wonderful Forefront Client Security management console (or FCSMC for the party people) crashed and this lovely, helpful error appeared every time I attempted to load the console. This is bad, as can’t really look or do anything with the console. Bad FCSMC! Or the easy to read version: FX:{f337d96e-45c1-4106-88b1-e417a7703d6b} Exception has been thrown by [...]
Conficker has been doing the rounds for awhile, so it was only a matter of time before it found a way on to the network. There are some fantastic write ups on how Conficker acts: Sneaky tricks, Autorun.inf , working groups , detection methods and resources. Here’s how Forefront deals with it. From a USB [...]
Forefront was deployed to a Citrix server farm; much to the joy and delight of our Citrix Guru, Michael. He got rather concerned about the happy Forefront icon sitting in the system tray of Citrix desktops. If a user decided to kick off a Forefront scan, the Citrix server would ramp up its use of [...]
Had a Forefront client that displayed the annoying* orange alert icon. The system was refusing to get the current Forefront definitions update with a 0×80080005. No updating for me A quick search of the web got me no-where. Back to proper troubleshooting. Check services (Automatic Updates & Background Intelligent Transfer Service) and WindowsUpdate.log details are [...]
Was doing a bit of house keeping in a lab and had to re-point the Forefront MOM agents for a whole pile of machines. I remembered that FCS Nerds’ Craig Wiands had done a great post on it, so it dug it out and kicked of a simple batch script. Boom – redirected all the [...]
