Update adds Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 support to Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 clients

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing the problem described in this article. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.

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Prerequisites

To apply this update, you must have the following products installed:

• System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
• Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Update Rollup 1
  
  For more information about Update Rollup 1 for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  2551095 Update Rollup 1 for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

Restart requirement

You do not have to restart the computer to apply this update.

Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix does not replace a previously released hotfix.

Additional information

This update brings the antimalware client version to 4.1.0522.0. You can find the version information by clicking About on the Help menu of the Endpoint Protection client user interface.

File information

The English (United States) version of this hotfix installs files that have the attributes that are listed in the following tables. The dates and the times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The dates and the times for these files on your local computer are displayed in your local time together with your current daylight saving time (DST) bias. Additionally, the dates and the times may change when you perform certain operations on the files.

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 file information

For x86-based versions of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

For x64-based versions of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

Note Because of dependencies, some other files may be updated. However, the binaries of these files are not changed.

Client update

This update includes a new version of the Forefront Endpoint Protection Configuration Manager deployment package. For more information about how to deploy the client update, see the "Installing FEP 2010 Update Rollup 1" TechNet article that is described in the "References" section.

The Forefront Endpoint Protection deployment package installs the FepInstall.exe file that is listed in the tables earlier in this article. FepInstall.exe contains several .msi files, which are listed in the following tables. The English version of these packages has the file attributes that are listed in the following tables:

x86x64