Microsoft Forefront antivirus standalone installation

Forefront Client Security is Microsoft’s anti-virus product. It’s designed to be deployed to entire organisations, integrated into MOM (for reporting) and WSUS (for signature and engine updates). This is all great but how do you install it in standalone mode on a single PC?!

I had to dig through quite a bit of microsoft deployment guide, but I found the answer: it is possible.

Open up a command prompt (”run as administrator” if you’re running vista), change directory to the CLIENT folder of the FCS CD and type:

clientsetup.exe /NOMOM

It should install totally silently, then you’ll see the icon in the system tray telling you it needs an update already. Open internet explorer, visit Microsoft Update and install the critical update available for forefront.

When it’s all installed and updated, the forefront system tray icon should turn into a green tick.

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8 Responses to “Microsoft Forefront antivirus standalone installation”

  1. Chris Madrid Says:

    Thanks, I was looking for this!

  2. abo tarek Says:

    thanks so much

  3. sbc Says:

    thx very much!
    by the way it a reliable anti virus??

  4. Steve Says:

    Yeah, I think so – I haven’t had any virus problems since running it.

  5. Hein Says:

    Works great even in windows 7. Does anyone know how you can set the microsft update on scripted? (you need that for the new definitions).

  6. Justin Says:

    You sir are a life saver.

  7. Manish Says:

    Thnak you very much :-)

  8. RCC Student Says:

    Worked great! Thank you for this. I managed to install Forefront on a Server 2008 guest on Virtualbox running on Windows 7 using this.

    I did need to install and use Alcohol 52% to mount the image, but otherwise this went as described.

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