Hi
I know there have been some previous posts on this, but all seem to be answered without entirely clear answers.
With SBS2008 it shipped with OneCall server and client - This allowed the server to manage the antivirus on all the client PC's. After 12 months this was got rid of and abandoned. SBS2008 also shipped with 12 months of Forefront for Exchange which was to do the spam and viruses through emails.
After the 12 months I contacted Microsoft for advise, and they claimed that Forefront was not supported on SBS2008 and could give me no suggestions other than "you'll like R2" which wasn;t that useful.
So I ended up with the following decision - The emails all pass through my email server and then get downloaded using the pop connector, so my webserver scans emails for viruses and an initial level of Spam.
Each client PC has Norton Internet Security installed (as they are mostly laptop users that work away as well as in office) so it ensures they have self managed anitvirus and firewall. Obviously this also includes another spam filter. Norton appears to scan
the users mailbox as it is received into the cache of the client PC, so this seems to have the same effect of Forefront would have had on the server.
This has left the server with its inbuilt firewall, but no antivirus, which I deemed as acceptable as Microsoft was claiming their own software was not supported in SBS. As no one used the server to access anything, they all used their client PC's which would obviously scan all data as it was opened and accessed.
I was later (recently) to discover that Microsoft meant that no Server install of antivirus was supported in SBS which apparently means a central controlling agent, not actually an antivirus software to scan servers. Apparently I could still install a Client version of an antivirus on the server to scan the server for viruses, but then I'd need something else to deal with Exchange. This i have stayed away from as it all seems as if it would increase server load, which as from previous posts you know is a bit of an issue.
Now I;m abotu to move to SBS2011 with 32GB ram and 2 2.4Ghz XEON CPU's (6core) i am suspecting this hardware will handle most things very well. I am now wondering what the anitivirus situation for SBS and for Exchange is now.
Does SBS come with anything to scan SBS data and Exchange mail boxes? (I suspect not)
What are other people using? Is that a client version installed on the server to scan the server? or a server version which scans the server and controls all of the client updates to the workstations?
At the moment I am paying about £15 on average per client license for 1 year of Norton Internet Security, i don;t really want to go substantially higher than this, but I would like something that works really well.
any advice would be gratefully appreciated
Thanks
Tris
