Experience Sharing: Microsoft FSSMC Manual (1)

FSSMC is a Network Console interface that allows administrators to simultaneously manage Forefront Security for Exchange and SharePoint products from one location. The Administrator does not need to define the settings on each server. Instead, the Administrator creates a simple Job on the console and applies it to all servers or a specific group of servers. The Administrator opens the data packet to view a summary page that contains all viruses, spam, and filter statistics. This product contains a built-in report, including SMTP traffic, engine, signature version, and detection report.

Another feature of this product is to download the latest engine from the Internet and distribute it to internal computers.

Using FSSMC does not require many prerequisites. If you have installed Hyper-V, FSSMC is a great choice for virtual machines. To run FSSMC, you must install IIS. The operating system version is Windows Server 2003 and must be a 32-bit Server.

Deploy FSSMC

FSSMC can be installed on an independent server of a small company, but it also supports hierarchical use of the main topology and backup topology. If you are in a big environment, you should consider using the master/backup solution. In this way, you can update redundancy when the master server fails.

The installation requirements are very simple. Basically, you only need to install IIS and deploy software on Windows Server 2003 32-bit machine.

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After IIS is installed (the installation process is omitted), you need to install FSSMC. First download the fssmcdata package, and then execute the Installation File setup.exe.

1. Double-click the installation file to display the image shown in figure 2. In this example, a single server is used, so select "independent server" and click "Next ".

Figure 2

2. Next, deploy the SQL statements. Because you need to specify a different server to host the SQL database used by FSSMC, select SQL Enterprise Edition here. The installation process is as follows:

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3. When the FSSMC wizard is installed, system requirements and prerequisites are listed and verified during the installation process.

4. After the prerequisite installation is complete, the initial Page of the FSSMC Installation Wizard is displayed, and click "Next ". 5:

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5. The general steps for software installation are as follows.