Forefront Client Security Deployment Tool
After a lot of work, I am very pleased to finally announce the release of "Forefront Client Security Deployment Tool". FCS Deployment Tool is a free toolkit provides additional deployment capabilities in addition to those which are available with the RTM Version of FCS . This tool gives network and security administrators the ability to scan their network and/or AD, discover existing installed Anti-Virus solutions (currently supporting Mcafee, Symantec and Trend-Micro) that are already installed on their clients, uninstall existing AV solution and install FCS Client – all in one.
Nothing much to add, just that the Downloads of the Complete Toolkit and the User Guide are available at Codeplex via of the following link:
http://www.codeplex.com/fcscompete/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14440
Always appreciate any feedback.
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- Nice work Yaniv, i've just tried it and it all seems to work nicely - i'm sure many people will find this very useful !
Thanks ! - Hi. I ran into 1 small issue with this deployment tool that I was wondering if you had a work around to. We run Symantec Ghost and the tool wants to uninstall the ghost client before installing the ForeFront client. Can this be turned off somewhere?
- thanks for that.
just checked it out in the lab, and it is... our first confirmed bug :-)
we will put out a new build with some new features and a fix for that one hopefully by the end of the week.
Yaniv
Was this post helpful? click Yes above. - Hi Again,
New build is out, fixed the symantec bug and a few other that were reported during the last week.
also added some new functions including the ability to re-scan, and resume the uninstall process after restart (which in some uninstall cases is a must).
link is the same.
enjoy!
Was this post helpful? click Yes above. - do you know if useful for CA too.
To expand this will it do Eset's NOD32 v2 clients?
Jon
I am sorry but this tool only supports removal of mcafee, trend-micro and symantec clients.
there is not planning in the nereby future to expand this support.
Was this post helpful? click Yes above.- that's too bad...CA would have been nice. Any ideas for automating the uninstall for CA etrust ITM 8.1?
- just write a short script where you uninstall CA etrust ITM agent with the following command:
MsiExec.exe /X{107558C8-458B-45EA-A0FE-7CC10D687DB6} /qn
(following instructions of CA at : http://supportconnect.ca.com/sc/kb/techdetail.jsp?searchID=TEC437389&docid=437389&bypass=yes&fromscreen=kbresults)
and then runs a clientsetup.exe with the appropriate parameters. that's about what my tool does for symantec, mcafee and trend.
I've already did such a script for NOD32, Sophos, and kaspesky.... there is not reason why this won't work :-)
Was this post helpful? click Yes above. Hi.
I have installed the newest version of FCS Deployment and have successfully installed it on the Forefront client security-server.
The software finds the specific computer I m testing on in the ad. The computer is online and has Symantec Antivirus 10.1 installed. I m deploying the computer and it starts uninstall the Symantec. The defined machine starts working. After 5 minutes an error appears:
[29/09/2009 15:51:39] Uninstalling Symantec v10.1.7000.7
[29/09/2009 15:51:40] executing proccess: 5836
[29/09/2009 15:52:10] Waiting to finish restart
[29/09/2009 15:57:10] Reading uninstallation log
[29/09/2009 15:57:11] Symantec v10.1.7000.7 Uninstallation log:
started
parameters: "C:\68b5f63c-0732-4eac-ba04-8f7faba30773\symantec10" "" "2085C617-589C-40F8-BE40-EDBC9E2CA2EB"MsiExec.exe /qn /x {"2085C617-589C-40F8-BE40-EDBC9E2CA2EB"} /l symantec_log.txt
error=1619
Any suggestion what may help in this case?
