Can I push out Microsoft Security Essentials to an entire network?

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Can I push out Microsoft Security Essentials to an entire network? How can this be achieved easily and quickly?

Asked: April 12, 2011 4:35 PM Last updated: December 12, 2013 5:18 PM

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Last updated: December 12, 2013 5:18 PM GMT

Michael Tidmarsh62,235 pts.
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Hello TeachMeIT,

Sorry but MSE are designed to *Home/Small Business Users*.
If you need/have more that that you might need Forefront.

That said deployment capabilities for MSE are not a must and you might have to get some third party administrative templates to get around the non MSI deployment limitation.
Even so, updates for MSE are available through WSUS.

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Subhendu Sen Apr 13, 2011 11:21 AM GMT

Agree with Saturno for first part. Microsoft has lately extended free download of MSE to small businesses with up to 10 PCs. Though there r several free-for-life anti-virus programs available in the market, like Avast, AVG, Bitdefender, Malwarebytes, Panda Cloud and so on, people have a belief that paid solutions are more effective. No anti-virus provides an entire safe guard ! So, how u keep safe ur system, that totally depends on ur proper strategy.

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