March 2014 anti-malware platform update for Endpoint Protection clients

Update information

This anti-malware platform update contains the following improvements:

• Enables future platform updates to be distributed through Microsoft Update for managed System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection clients and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 clients. See the following TechNet blog for more information:
  
  
  http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2014/03/27/anti-malware-platform-updates-for-endpoint-protection-will-be-released-to-mu.aspx
• Allows the endpoint protection agent to assess whether the operating system is approaching the end of the support life cycle. See the following TechNet blog for more information:
  
  
  http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2014/03/27/fep-and-scep-anti-malware-protection-support-after-oses-reach-end-of-life.aspx

How to obtain this update

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager

This update is included in Cumulative Update 1 for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager.

System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

This update is available in the following locations.

Microsoft Update

Anti-malware platform updates for stand-alone System Center 2012 R2 clients, System Center 2012 clients, and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 clients are available from Microsoft Update.

Microsoft Support

A supported update is available from Microsoft Support.

If this update is available for download, there is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, contact Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the update.

Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft website: Note The "Hotfix download available" form displays the languages for which the update is available. If you do not see your language, it is because an update is not available for that language.

Prerequisites

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

• System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
• Cumulative Update 4 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1
• Service Pack 2 for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and Update Rollup 1 for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

Restart information

You may have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

Note When you install this hotfix in a Configuration Manager environment, we recommend that you close the Configuration Manager Administration Console before you install this update package.

Installation information

System Center 2012 R2 Endpoint Protection clients and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection clients

After you install this update package, you must enable the Automatic Client Upgrade feature in the Configuration Manager Administrator Console. The Endpoint Protection agent will be upgraded, depending on the values that are defined in the client policy retrieval settings and in the Automatically upgrade client within days setting.

Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

After you install this update package, you must create a new Forefront Endpoint Protection client installation deployment or rerun the existing advertisement. For more information about how to create the deployment, see the following Microsoft TechNet topic:


For more information, see the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) blog article:

Update replacement information

This update replaces the following updates:

Version information

This update brings the anti-malware client version to 4.5.0216.0. To find the version information, click About on the Help menu of the Endpoint Protection client user interface.

File information

The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.

For System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection

For Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Server

For all supported 32-bit platformsFor all supported 64-bit platforms