Ever wonder about what FCS clients are actually downloading when they update?   Have you clicked on “File Information” option in WSUS or downloaded a package from the Microsoft Update catalog, seen a long list of update files, and questioned...

Back in October, the Forefront Client Security product team made an announcement that WSUS 3.0 on 64bit OS would be a supported scenario and to not install the Distribution component on 64bit Operating systems. "Also, we are announcing support for...

Yesterday Microsoft released KB971026 which is an update to the FCS Antimalware engine. This update installs successfully without issues. However, after this update is applied, the initial FCS Client package called " Client Update for Microsoft Forefront...

A catch-up scan is a scan that is initiated because a regularly scheduled Forefront Client Security antimalware scan was missed.  Usually these scheduled scans are missed because the computer was turned off at the scheduled time.  The FCS documentation...

During evaluation of the Forefront Client Security antimalware protection many customers will review the information provided by independent antimalware testers such as http://www.av-test.org/ http://www.virusbtn.com/ http://www.av-comparatives.org/ ...

As I mentioned in my previous blog posting , there have been several updates to the FCS antimalware client since its release. Through traditional deployment methods you will install the release to manufacturing components(RTM) of the FCS client which...

On or about December 9 th , Microsoft Malware Protection Center included new information in the FCS definitions to ‘clean' the file ‘user32.dll' in the system32 and system32\dllcache folders which may have been modified at some earlier time by the Marioforever...

During the course of your FCS deployment it may be necessary to redirect an FCS client from one FCS collection server to another. Common reasons why an admin would do this include moving the machines from a test server to a production server or load balancing...

Are you suspecting an Infection in your network? If you suspect an Infection in your network and if you could find the infected file please upload the sample to the link https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/submit.aspx Only one file can...

On a system running the FCS Client, you may run into the event listed below which occurs on the local system and may cause an Alert to fire on the FCS Console. This issue can occur when the client system has had a Real-time protection Security Agent...

The Forefront Client Security team announced the release of Service Pack 1(SP1) last month. As described in the announcement SP1 is a server-only update. As this is a departure from what many folks are used to it causes a little confusion about which...

The CSS Security Support Team will be posting to this blog to inform FCS customers about common support issues seen in the field. If you have a topic you would like to see covered, please post a comment and we will attempt to address it. Thanks, ...

All information provided here is in regards to Forefront Client Security 1.0. There are no guarantees on the information provided. Default DB sizes during FCS Setup Database sizing Transaction log file sizing Hard Disk Spindles Troubleshooting...