Forefront Server Security Management Console

You can now download Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Trial Version. The Forefront Server Security Management Console allows administrators to easily manage Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, and Microsoft Antigen.

Our team is really glad to announce that the Forefront Server Security Management Console (FSSMC) is now available here for free evaluation. FSSMC is the successor to Antigen Enterprise Manager (AEM) and includes lots of new features and improved performance, scalability and stability.

What is FSSMC?

FSSMC is a web-based central management console that allows administrators to easily manage Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint and Microsoft Antigen. The console provides centralized configuration and operation, automated download and distribution of signature and scan engine updates, and generation of comprehensive reports.

FSSMC also allows administrators to rapidly respond to outbreaks by updating protection across enterprise deployments, thereby improving organizational agility in responding to new threats.

What does FSSMC support?

  • Use of SQL Server Express, SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 as the back-end database system
  • Manage both Antigen 9 and the Forefront Server Security series of products (including the recent Service Packs for Forefront Server Security)
  • Eleven localized languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian
  • Support for Exchange 2007 CCR and Exchange 2003 clusters
  • Cross forest server management support
  • Cross domain user management support

Continue reading at http://blogs.technet.com/fss/archive/2007/12/12/forefront-server-security-management-console-available-for-trial.aspx

Overview
Forefront Server Security Management Console allows administrators to easily manage Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint and Microsoft Antigen, providing a web-based console to centralize configuration and operation, automate the download and distribution of signature and scan engine updates, and generate comprehensive reports. Forefront Server Security Management Console also allows administrators to rapidly respond to outbreaks and update protection across enterprise deployments, improving organizational agility in responding to new threats. Through integration with Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server, Forefront Server Security Management Console helps maintain reliability and performance of messaging and collaboration protection.

System Requirements

  • Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003
  • 512 MB of available memory
  • 64 MB of available disk space on an NTFS formatted drive for Forefront Server Security Management Console
  • 186 MB of available disk space on an NTFS formatted drive for prerequisites listed below.
  • IIS 6.0 or higher (with ASP.NET 2.0 enabled)
  • SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition (SP3a recommended), SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition(or above), or SQL Server 2005 Express Edition – Forefront Server Security Management Console supports SQL Server 2005 Express Edition which will be installed when selecting the “Express Install” option.
  • The following prerequisites are included in the trial download and installed automatically if they are not already present
    • .net Runtime v.2.0
    • MSMQ Triggers
    • MSXML 6.0 SP1

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