I have been getting more and more questions within the FSSP (ForeFront Security for SharePoint) space. If you are wondering about topology designs or where FSSP might live within a particular SharePoint configuration, please read the following and it will more than likely answer your question: Using the Acceleration Toolkit for Microsoft Forefront Security for [...]

At a client of mine today, who has a robust FSSP environment, similar to the larger one I wrote about in this MSDN article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee412237.aspx or if you are just interested in the specific image: http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/Ee412237.792e5c8b-f1b7-4cb4-9b87-5689c44973da(en-us,office.12).gif was experiencing an abnormal amount of memory utilization on the WFE’s I had built for them. While they wanted [...]

I get asked a lot about ForeFront topologies, meaning if you are given a SharePoint farm composed of X number of SharePoint components what machines get what. If you are interested in this, please look at my MSDN article: Using the Acceleration Toolkit for Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint. An acceleration toolkit provides a logical [...]

There are several types of scan jobs that exist within the Forefront for SharePoint framework, each of which may be appropriate for an arbitrary task depending on your requirements. The three scan jobs that exist within Forefront for SharePoint are: Quick Scan Manual Scan Realtime Scan Quick Scan The first type of scan job offered [...]

Corporate antivirus SharePoint protection is only as good as your AV vendor builds and how well you assimilate updates to their arbitrary AV scanning engines. For that reason, Forefront for SharePoint has built in mechanisms that will allow you to aggregate and incorporate AV vendors various scan engines into one cohesive unit protecting your SharePoint [...]