Henriksen - Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection Cookbook

Nicolai Henriksen works as a chief technical architect consultant presently and lives in Bergen, Norway, with his wife and three children.

He has worked in the information technology consulting business for almost two decades, working and implementing systems in all kinds of various businesses from small to enterprises, mostly with products within the Microsoft family. But he has gained great experience and knowledge about many vendors and products.

Nicolai's educational background started with electronic engineering, and he worked for a while as a technician. That has also been his great interest, besides computers.

He started exploring computers in 1980 as a teenager and somehow then understood the meaning and future perspective that computer science had for the world.

For the past 12 years, he has been dedicatedly working with System Center Configuration Manager in customer projects. Since 2012, Endpoint Protection got integrated into this great product and Nicolai says that by then the amount of companies using this product has increased enormously.

Since 1990, when malware and computer viruses started to evolve, he started helping business to protect their computers with all kinds of antimalware products.

This is the first book Nicolai has written, yet he has done several reviews on System Center books in the past couple of years, and has thought of writing a book for quite some time. It's not unlikely that we will see more books from Nicolai in the future.

Nicolai also speaks in public conferences while he loves to teach and share his knowledge with others. The fact that people are willing to listen and you have burning desire to share without demanding anything back gives a great feeling according to him. He spends some time blogging, Twittering, and answering questions on Technet forums.

In 2012, Nicolai was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), which only a few people in the world have achieved. He then specialized in the popular and great management product called System Center Configuration Manager.

Nicolai has been balancing a life as a family man with intense creativity and passion within computer science for many years.

Acknowledgment

I would like to thank my wife, Kristina, for putting up with my many late night working, and our children, Tuva, Malin, and Olav for being patient and kind to their dad. The love and care from these important persons in my life have been essential for my work and career. And I want to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book. I would also like to thank the Microsoft MVP Program and MVP members for all the support and inspiration, and MVP Ronni Pedersen for doing a good job reviewing this book. Finally, I want to thank my mom and dad, Ella and Eigil, for always being there for me.

About the Reviewer

Ronni Pedersen works as a Cloud solution architect, Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP, Certified Trainer, event speaker, and author. Today, he works for EG A/S, where he also contributes to the community by writing articles and sharing tips and tricks on http://www.ronnipedersen.com/. In recent years, he has been invited as a speaker at various international conferences and User Groups meetings, such as TechEd, Microsoft Management Summit, Midwest Management Summit, Microsoft Ignite, TechTalks, and the global Microsoft Cloud Roadshow. In 2008, he was one of the cofounders of the Danish System Center User Group.

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Preface

System Center Endpoint Protection, or Windows Defender, is a great security product when using System Center Configuration Manager or Microsoft Intune.

Its ability to protect computers in business increases every day, and it continually improves its features to meet today's security risks and attacks.

Because over 75% of all business around the world are now using the popular and great management tool System Center Configuration Manager, Endpoint Protection has also become widespread over that past few years.

In this book, we will explore the main motivation of using the well-known and established System Center Endpoint Protection and Windows Defender. You will gain knowledge about how to set up and configure the products for your organization based on real-life experience and best practices from a field expert and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. Throughout the book, you will see several best practice tips and recipes for you to use in your daily life as a security administrator.