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Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading vendors and content controls to help businesses protect their Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 collaboration environments by eliminating documents containing malicious code, confidential information, and inappropriate content. Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint provides comprehensive protection against the latest threats to help ensure documents are safe before they are saved to or retrieved from the SharePoint document library. In addition, documents can be scanned for company sensitive information, profanity, or other administrator-defined content as defined by company policy. Through deep integration with Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Forefront Security for SharePoint helps protect your collaboration environment while maintaining uptime and optimizing performance. Forefront Security for SharePoint also enables administrators to easily manage product configuration, operation, automated antivirus signature updates, and reporting at the server and enterprise level.
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Forefront Security for SharePoint provides a number of new features. Its 64-bit server compatibility allows use of Forefront on 64-bit versions of SharePoint. Additional virus scanning engines, including the Microsoft Antimalware engine, have been added. It also includes support for the new Office 2007 XML document format and built-in scanning support for Information Rights Management, providing compatibility with Office 2007 applications. Forefront Security for SharePoint is available in 11 languages including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and Russian. This product is the latest version of the product formerly known as Antigen for SharePoint, acquired by Microsoft as part of the 2005 acquisition of Sybari Software.
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Customers should upgrade to SP3 in order to take advantage of the new set of five antimalware engines that will be available December 1, 2009. This service pack introduces technology that will notify customers of engine changes – including the addition or elimination of engines – and allow administrators to update their engine configurations without having to deploy any new product updates. This update allows customers to accommodate engine changes effortlessly, helping maintain the high level of security provided in the Forefront server security products. Customers can also upgrade to take advantage of the rollup of all software fixes.
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No, it is not required. However, the service pack will provide you with notifications of further engine changes and automatically make available new engines to you. If you have an existing contract for product shipping with eight engines, you will continue to have support for the existing eight engines available through December 1, 2009. After this date, signature updates will not be provided for retired engines. To take advantage of the new set of five engines, it is recommended that you deploy the appropriate product service pack before December 1, 2009.
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Microsoft continually checks antivirus engine quality and detection rates through 3rd party independent testing organizations. We have found that using multiple malware engines consistently provides the highest detection rates against the competition and represents an average response time of 3-6 hours for new viruses. In contrast, competitive single-engine solutions average response times are more than 2-9 days as noted in recent AV-Test.org data. The set of five engines available in Forefront server security products as of Dec. 1, 2009 includes Microsoft AV, Kaspersky, Norman, VirusBuster and Authentium. However, these engines may change over time as we seek to improve overall protection metrics and to maintain our detection advantage relative to our competition and in support of our customer needs.
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Yes. The Forefront Server Security Management Console supports Forefront Security for SharePoint, including both the Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 releases.
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Forefront Security for SharePoint supports Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Customers who purchase Forefront Security for SharePoint will also be licensed to use Antigen for SharePoint to protect Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 collaboration environments.
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Forefront Security for SharePoint is available in 11 languages including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and Russian.
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Forefront Security for SharePoint pricing is available through your Microsoft account representative or your authorized reseller.
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Yes, Forefront Security for SharePoint is available as part of the Forefront Security Suite or can be purchased on a standalone basis.
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Yes, Forefront Security for SharePoint is available as part of the ECAL.
