ARB Security Solutions -- SharePoint Security -- Adam Buenz [SharePoint MVP] -- Installing Antigen Into A SharePoint Environment

As SharePoint becomes an industry standard for collobration and communications platforms, playing roles for project management and business critical application hosting, securing the platform becomes increasingly important across the enterprise.

Through the remainder of this guide, I will be showing you to deploy Antigen in a siloed single server SharePoint environment providing an extra layer of hardening into the overall architecture.

Grapping the Antigen installation package is usually a downloadable process, you can get an evaluation if you would like to first test it out.

http://www.microsoft.com/antigen/downloads/trial-software.mspx

The minimum requirements to run Antigen are:

Windows 2003 Server or Windows 2003 for Small Business Servers
MS Windows SharePoint Services 2003 or SharePoint Portal Server 2003
64 MB of Available Memory
100 MB of Available Disk Space
Intel Processor

Once you have the installation package, you have to unzip the files, I unzipped my package to:

c:Antigen

Once finished, you should have a total of 361 files that are unzipped, we have to navigate to the drive to start the installation.

Once you have unzipped the package, you will get the following folder structure below. Select the setup.exe to begin the installation.

Once you launch the setup file, you will be brought to a splash screen while the installation process loads and unpackages the required files.

Once unpackaged, you will be brought to the first setup page. Since we are installing on a server, there shouldn't be any unneccesary process running, if so shut them down so we don't interfere with the engine installation.

The next page is a standard Microsoft license, so just click through.

Following, put your Microsoft EA or user information that you used when installing SharePoint.

You can install Antigen remotely, or you can install it on the box you are running the setup on. I am installing it on my SharePoint development machine, so I am going to select local installation. If you choose remote installation, you will have to fill in the required information for connectivity to the remote machine.

Antigen includes several Windows applications, which can be used to manage the Antigen environment. I am installing on a server, so I want the tools as well as the server package, so I will select "Server - Admin console and scanner componets." At a later date it makes sense to install the client on a machine that you would typically admin SharePoint from.

Preventing malware is all about staying updated, so on the next screen you can set the install to query Sybari's servers for the latest updated information (highly recommended).

The next screen will just allow you to define the location of where you want the package to go.

The next screen will walk you through the standard shortcuts available.

Similiar to the setup of SharePoint, you will have to define a domain account. It is typical to have a SharePoint service account already setup for remote database access, so it is recommended in this portion to use that account. I am just going to use the administrator account since my server is siloed from everything else in my environment.

Next, your installation will begin!

Now that you have it installed, you can start configuring it.

Next >> Configuring and Managing with Antigen

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