In the Assets and Compliance workspace, expand Endpoint Protection, select Antimalware Policies, right click and choose Create AntiMalware Policy, give it a name like Custom SCEP UNC DEF policy and select Definition Updates from the available choices (you may of course add more sections but for the purpose of this post this is sufficient).Ĭlick on Set Paths and enter the path to the Updates folder which is a sub directory of the SCEP_UNC_DEFS file share, click on Add when done. Now that we’ve created our template folder structure we need to populate it with the actual definition updates for the prospective architecture.įor 圆4, download the following files and place them in the X64 folder.įor x86, download the following files and place them in the X86 folder. Populate the share with definition updates Create a Share and populate with foldersįirst of all on your chosen server create a folder called SCEP_UNC_DEFS and share it to Domain Users and Domain Computers.īeneath this folder create another folder called Updates with two sub folders for both architectures like so
#SYSTEM CENTER ENDPOINT PROTECTION 2012 SP1 HOW TO#
In this post I’ll explain how you can set this up and how to verify it’s working.
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In addition to populating the share correctly, you also need to define your AntiMalware Policy UNC path source correctly otherwise the definition updates will never be found. One of the user definable sources for updates for Endpoint Protection definition updates is an UNC file share, but how you populate that share can mean success or failure when it comes to deploying definition updates from a UNC file share for System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1.