14 DAY TRIAL // Business customers that have deployed SharePoint Server in their infrastructure and looking for a security solution to protect the product’s libraries can now download and test drive Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Release Candidate. The security solution is designed to safeguard SharePoint libraries from users that attempt to upload or download a variety of potentially malicious content, including documents infected malware, out-policy items, or sensitive data. Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint hit RC at the end of the past week, and is currently available to early adopters.
“We are pleased to announce that the Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) RC is available on the Microsoft Download Center. This release has many performance enhancements, stress improvements, and bug fixes. This is a stand-alone release and cannot be managed with Forefront Protection Manager. The Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint RTM standalone will ship in the same time-frame as Office 14,” revealed Mitch Hall, program manager Forefront Server Protection.
Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint RC is designed to play nice with a few SharePoint releases, including Office SharePoint Server 2010, Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1, or SharePoint Foundation version 3 SP1. Microsoft advised companies looking to embrace SharePoint as well as FPSP to opt for a 64-bit operating system in the detriment of a 32-bit OS, as the performance of Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint is guaranteed to be significantly better due to a difference in system resources.
“If your organization expects to have large capacity requirements on SharePoint server, it is recommended that you install the 64-bit OS and a 64-bit SharePoint front-end server before installing FPSP,” Microsoft stated. Customers can choose between Windows Server 2003 SP2 (Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, or Web Edition), Windows Server 2008, or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, the latter not featuring a 32-bit version.
“Upgrades from previous products and beta versions are not supported. Any previous version will need to be uninstalled and the Microsoft Forefront Protection for SharePoint data folder will need to deleted,” Hall added.
Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Release Candidate (RC) is available for download here.
SharePoint 2010 Public Beta is available for download here. 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine (Beta) is available for download here.