Re: SP2 Security Center
From: Colin Nash [MVP] (x_at_x)
Date: 02/01/05
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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:14:51 -0500
"Schooltech" <schooltech@education.nz> wrote in message
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> If your PC is not connected to a domain, you see in the SP2 Security
> Center:
> * A list of alert settings for the popup warnings
> * Pop up warnings appear in the taskbar system notification area such as
> "Your antivirus may be out of date."
>
> As soon as you connect your PC to a domain, all these warnings disappear.
>
> Microsoft in its infinite wisdom has not heard of domain users who aren't
> plugged into the domain all the time, such as laptop users, or network
> outages, or any other circumstance in which users of machines which are
> plugged into the network might have their machines fail to continue to be
> updated with automatic updates, or fail to receive antivirus updates.
>
> It has apparently not occurred to Microsoft that
> * since users can disconnect their machines from the network and still log
> in, if the machine is not connected to the domain for an extended period
> it
> might not receive automatic updates and thus be vulnerable
> * if the antivirus updating is not working for some reason, the machine's
> antivirus product could still become out of date with no warning to the
> user.
>
> It's a little much to expect any support from MS either for what is a new
> product. There appears not to be one single security document or any
> useful
> information on the Security Center.
>
>
That's because they assume that most domains are run by professionals who
will take their own precautions to ensure that the systems are up-to-date
(and possibly, these professionals will want to do their own testing before
deploying patches through something like SUS or SMS.) The automatic updates
+ security center features in SP2 is really geared toward pure home users,
but as others have mentioned, system admins can turn its components on or
off on domains.
-- Colin Nash Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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