Prerequisites of the infrastructure

Endpoint Protection in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has external dependencies and requirements in the product to make it work. This depends somewhat on what platform you're running on, and what your infrastructure and network looks like. You will find some pointers and tips later in this book. Now, you are most likely to have a WSUS in your infrastructure already, but you cannot use this with Configuration Manager. You need to set up a new one, as re-using an existing old WSUS server is not supported nor recommended by Microsoft. SCCM will setup and configure the WSUS with the settings from the Software Update Point role and therefore needs to be a fresh new database and WSUS installation.

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