Archive for the ‘Forefront’ category

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When Forefront Ignores BITS settings for WSUS Updates

August 18, 2008

For those who like to keep their network links from hitting 100% utilization need to keep the following in mind: Forefront clients normal run in background mode for updates from a WSUS server, so it will use the BITS settings, which you hopefully have applied by a GPO to all your machines. Background Mode , [...]

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Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 and Forefront hiccup

August 18, 2008

Found a odd bug with DPM and Forefront. Forefront detects a virus and puts in to a manual clean mode. DPM stops synchronizing until the file is manually cleaned. Background Users folders are being redirected to a server; My Documents, Profiles etc. The user machines are only set to quick scans. The server does a [...]

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Update Forefront Client KB952265

August 3, 2008

Ment to post this when the patch surfaced on 23rd July 2008. It takes the engine to Client Version:  1.5.1955.0 from Client Version:  1.5.1941.0 if you check the about details KB952265 Basically fixes a couple of things Forefront can break if you it’s running on a web server, SharePoint, WebDav, IIS7 or a 2008 server [...]

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Forefront and Windows 2000 Installations

August 3, 2008

Got nailed with two odd install error while pushing out Forefront to old 2000 systems Odd Problem One The dreaded GDI+ error: This product requires GDI+. Please load the Windows 2000 Security Software PreRequisite Pack. But I have! and the GDIPLUSS.DLL is in the %systemroot%\system32 directory too! So after attempting a bunch of things got [...]

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Forefront and MOM agents not playing nice on the MOM console

August 3, 2008

These annoying errors keep popping up in my Forefront MOM console from Forefront MOM agents on random machines around the network. Error in the MOM Console Type: Warning Provider Name: Application Event Number: 21294 Description: The response processor was denied to execute a response. The action account the MOM Agent is using doesn’t have enough [...]