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GPO Settings for Microsoft Security Essentials

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:52:34 +0000

With the release of the latest version of Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 in December 2010, Microsoft also changed the licensing terms.

***Small Business. *If you operate a small business, then you may install and use the software on up to ten (10) devices in your business.

Now although 10 PCs isn’t a lot, some Administrators might be interested in configuring their Microsoft Security Essential clients with a GPO. Fabien Duchene has created an Administrative template for MSE. Read more here

Automated Microsoft Security Essentials Installation

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:30:08 +0000

For all those that frequently setup test machines and get tired of manually installing the Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0, here’s a straight forward batch file (even a regular user could use) that does the following:

Downloads the Microsoft Security Essential 2.0 (x86) installation source file
Installs Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0
Downloads and updates the virus definition signature file

[sourcecode language=“plain”] @ECHO OFF Echo Downloading Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 (x86) start /wait bitsadmin /TRANSFER MSE20 http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/3/8/A38FFBF2-1122-48B4-AF60-E44F6DC28BD8/en-us/x86/mseinstall.exe %TEMP%\mseinstall.exe

Managing Microsoft Security Essentials from the Command Line

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:44:32 +0000

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is Microsoft’s free Antivirus Software which helps protecting clients against viruses and spyware. For years I had used other free Antivirus programs on my home based clients, but have switched them all to MSE since it’s release in September 2009.

The MSE binaries are located in the following folder:* C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials*. In that folder we also find the MpCmdRun.exe which provides a command line interface for MSE. The tool provides the following options: