

- MICROSOFT SYSTEM CENTER ENDPOINT PROTECTION FOR MAC REVIEW UPGRADE
- MICROSOFT SYSTEM CENTER ENDPOINT PROTECTION FOR MAC REVIEW SOFTWARE
MICROSOFT SYSTEM CENTER ENDPOINT PROTECTION FOR MAC REVIEW UPGRADE
We recommend that you upgrade your Configuration Manager 2012 and Endpoint Protection 2012 infrastructure as soon as possible to the latest version of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.

MICROSOFT SYSTEM CENTER ENDPOINT PROTECTION FOR MAC REVIEW SOFTWARE
Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has a support and servicing lifecycle during which we provide new features, software updates, security fixes, etc. This post is a reminder that there is only 1 year remaining until System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is no longer supported. When we decided to switch back off of the MS product we did a lot of research and found 2 things, 1) SCCM EPP wasn't reviewed due to "Lack of competitiveness" or scored almost last and 2) There are really only 3 leaders in Enterprise AV and it's so close you have to decide if you want the people that don't answer requests for quoting, the people whose product consumes CPU cycles like nothing else or ESET which is a decent balance.Last year we blogged about the end of support date for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. I'm not saying you need to use ESET, I just wanted to let people know how poor SCCM EPP is. The Web Console is nowhere near as good as 5's thick console but ESET found a ton of threats and cleaned up our issues on it's own within 2 weeks.

However within a year I found that the AV was behind and we were wiping a laptop/PC weekly from infections. Deployment and configuration was fast and easy.

We moved to SCCM EPP as a cost reduction as it was included with our SCCM agreement. In this scenario we had ESET 5 which was fantastic, the console was great with tons of extra info that helped daily with other day to day work. I have deployed Enterprise AV 4x in my career.
