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Help, Need to Sell Stirling to my Boss
Help, Need to Sell Stirling to my Boss
- Situation is: We need a new Anti-Virus solution.
Problem: Theirs another tech that's selling to my boss that we should'nt go with Stirling (forefront) because it hasn't made its stand (proven itself) on the market yet and go with another solution. We've recently started hosting our exchange and sharepoint at Microsoft Online so i lose the arguments of having FF better protect those systems than another.
We do not use SCOM (not for long if i have my way :P) nor SCCM.
I need some points to sell to my boss why we should go with Stirling in November rather than any other solution. Are there some documents out there to help me out?
I've seen somewhere that Forefront is the best protection fo Vista but can't seem to find it anywhere anymore.
Benjamin Niaulin
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- Hi Benjamin,
I think I found the refering article:
http://blogs.technet.com/forefront/archive/2009/08/06/forefront-tops-vb100.aspx
Stirling will require some investmests in your infrastructure, to use a centralized scenario you will need:
- SQL Server (for SCOM)
- SCOM (for management)
- WSUS (for updates)
I think you can find some benefits here:
http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/stirling/en/us/features.aspx
Regards and good luck selling it to your boss!- Marked As Answer byBenjamin Niaulin Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:38 PM
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- no one has any ideas? Also, hows does the agent stay up to date if it's away. (like a laptop that goes on a mission for 3 months)
Benjamin Niaulin - Hi Benjamin,
I think I found the refering article:
http://blogs.technet.com/forefront/archive/2009/08/06/forefront-tops-vb100.aspx
Stirling will require some investmests in your infrastructure, to use a centralized scenario you will need:
- SQL Server (for SCOM)
- SCOM (for management)
- WSUS (for updates)
I think you can find some benefits here:
http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/stirling/en/us/features.aspx
Regards and good luck selling it to your boss!- Marked As Answer byBenjamin Niaulin Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:38 PM
- Thanks for the help.
I need to install SCOM, do you mean a SCOM infrastructure? i wasn't aware of that....
Benjamin Niaulin - ok well im very disapointed and i love Microsoft, being an MCT i always try to push to go for Microsoft products, but their not helping themselves here....
we just need an anti virus and system protection software, not ready to go and get SCOM at the same time. I hope i misunerstood, i;ll verify it
Benjamin Niaulin
