Second Impressions of Microsoft Forefront Client Security
Posted by Jake | Posted in Forefront | Posted on 09-07-2010-05-2008
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I’ve installed FCS before and it was a major pain in the ass. The pre-reqs weren’t documented well and it took a while to get SQL to play nice and eventually get Forefront installed. I really just attributed it to my own lack of experience with it.
I’m back installing Forefront again and I’m going to say it again. It’s a pain in the ass to install. Great anti-virus product on the front end, but damn it makes you want to throw your laptop across the room and find a sledgehammer to smash the server into pieces ala the Office Space printer on the backend. First I ran into the msiexec.exe access is denied error which was apparently fixed by installing the .NET 1.1 Framework. Really? The documentation calls for .NET 2.0 or higher. Two days later after fighting through one KBXXXX article after another, it’s installed.
Seriously, if you want people to buy this…make the install a little bit easier. If Symantec can do it, why can’t you, Microsoft?
