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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 Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 2 (SP2) if they are moving to Windows Server 2008 or want to take advantage of new installable profanity key word lists. All customers are encouraged to upgrade to the SP2 release to install a roll-up of the latest software fixes.
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No. Customers are encouraged to use the SP2 product to take advantage of the roll-up of the latest software fixes, but are not required to upgrade.
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Forefront Security for SharePoint includes industry-leading antivirus engines from global security firms including AhnLab, Authentium, CA, Kaspersky Labs, Norman Data Defense, Microsoft, Sophos, and VirusBuster. Businesses can run up to five scan engines at once, and in different combinations across the server system. This provides rapid response to new threats regardless of where the threat originates. Forefront Security for SharePoint automatically downloads the latest signatures and selects the optimal combination of engines to use, helping ensure a high level of protection and reducing the window of exposure to any given threat. Diversity of antivirus engines across collaboration servers helps protect against a single point of failure in the IT environment.
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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.
