Hi community,

So I'm a new employee in this small-business company that has over 100 devices and less than 30 employees. We are a software development firm. We are a gold-partner and have access to all of the Microsoft products to download. I'm their new Sysadmin and am in the middle of cleaning various things up. One of them is antivirus.

Looks like we've been using Forefront Client Security, it is installed on all clients and definitions are pushed out 4 times a day via WSUS. That's about all I know. Unfortunately it sounds like the server that held the management role was recycled about a year ago, and so now exists no known management server. At least the definitions are up to date but that's about it. If it helps at all, according to Spiceworks the client version is 1.5.1996.1 - not sure if that's even the latest or not. Haven't found a listing of the latest version numbers for this product.

What's my next step? I'm thinking I either A) find another possibly existing server, or B) create a new management server and update the clients to talk to the new server, or C) Forget about all of this and start fresh with Forefront Endpoint Protection which I understand has replaced Client Security anyways? One of my fears is starting fresh with FEP and then clients receiving two antivirus clients each, one from CS and another from a newer FEP. Not sure if that'd even happen, I expect FEP to uninstall any CS clients, but I'm worried about what to do if it does happen as well.

Thoughts? Advice? Your help would be greatly appreciated!