Microsoft Forefront

Location of MOM/Forefront Client Security Server within registry

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For 32 bit machines
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mission Critical Software\OnePoint\Configurations\ForefrontClientSecurity\Operations\
Agent\Consolidators

For 64 bit machines
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mission Critical Software\OnePoint\Configurations\ForefrontClientSecurity\Operations
\Agent\Consolidators

Keys are ‘Consolidator 1 Host’ and ‘Consolidator 1 AD Name’

The policy cannot be deployed. Microsoft Forefront Client Security

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After installing Microsoft Forefront Client Security on a server, you receive the below error when attempting to deploy a policy
to an OU.

Error:

The policy cannot be deployed
Further details:
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

This is caused due to the version of Forefront Client Security not being supported on Windows 2008 server. You will not receive the error
on a Windows 2003 server.

BUT there is a fix. Install Forefront service pack 1. I had to install it earlier and it took less then a minute to install. No reboot was required.

For more info see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951951

Install Forefront Client Security with MOM switch

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To install Forefront Client Security manually with the options for the client machine to contact the MOM Server (managed), run the below command:

Browse to the folder within command prompt to where clientsetup.exe resides.

Type the following  – clientsetup.exe /CG ForefrontClientSecurity /MS MOMServerName and press enter

In most cases /CG is ForefrontClientSecurity but may be different depending on what you originally set it to.

Without MOM

To install without MOM so the client is unmanaged, type clientsetup.exe /nomom

Install Forefront Anti Virus standalone

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You can install forefront client security on a machine without it connecting to a mom server by typing the below command. Click start, click run, type cmd and click ok. Browse to clientsetup.exe or locate the file and drag and drop into the command prompt window. Type /nomom as shown below and press enter.

clientsetup.exe /NOMOM