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        Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 RC Now Available
        
        
        
			- By Kurt Mackie
- November 08, 2010
Microsoft announced today that the release candidate version  of its Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 security product is now available for  download.
Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 is the successor product  to Microsoft's Forefront Client Security product, part of a suite of enterprise  security products offered by Microsoft. This release candidate version, which  can be downloaded here,  represents the last test version before Microsoft makes the product generally  available. The product is expected "by the end of 2010," according to a  Microsoft blog.
Microsoft emphasizes the benefits of combining Forefront  Endpoint Protection 2010 with either System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2  or R3. (R3 was released  last month.) By using the two products together, IT pros can perform patch  management and check security information via the same management software,  Microsoft contends.
Microsoft is also touting the "behavior detection"  security capability of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010. Another benefit is improved  firewall management and a streamlined installation process, according to the  blog.
Today's announcement was a small part of the company's  overall news delivered at Tech-Ed Europe, an ongoing Microsoft educational  event being held in Berlin.  The big news there was Microsoft's Hyper-V  Cloud initiative, a series of programs designed to facilitate the building  of private clouds by organizations.
Another announcement coming from the event is a new white  paper from Microsoft claiming  power savings using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3. 
Finally, Microsoft touted some benefits from the new Service  Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2, which was released  late last month. SP1 offers power savings via its "dynamic  memory" workload allocation management capability, Microsoft  claims, plus users can obtain greater virtual desktop infrastructure  densities using it. The other feature in SP1 is RemoteFX, which enables remote thin  clients to run rich applications.
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            
        
        
                
                    About the Author
                    
                
                    
                    Kurt Mackie is senior news producer for 1105 Media's Converge360 group.