System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 is Microsoft's anti-virus and anti-malware offering. It replaces Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 and is no longer available as a stand-alone server.

SCEP 2012 is now fully integrated with ConfigMgr 2012 and this is now the only delivery mechanism for Microsoft Antivirus definitions.

This guide desciribes a full implementation of SCEP 2012 using ConfigMgr 2012 SP1. The guide is presented in the following sections:

  1. Add Endpoint Protection Point
  2. Antimalware Policy
  3. Enable SCEP on clients
  4. Alerts and subscriptions
  5. Definition Updates