Antivirus For Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Defender has been built into Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 by default to provide protection against malware, however there is no such default program installed in the Windows server operating system.
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To provide a basic level of security in a small server environment, we can install Microsoft Security Essentials with some simple modifications which contains most of the functionality of Windows Defender for free.
By default if you try to install Microsoft Security Essentials in Windows Server you will receive various errors which we will cover how to fix here.
While it is not possible to directly download Windows Defender to install, we can instead make use of Microsoft Security Essentials which is available as a slightly cut down version for older versions of Windows, such as Windows 7, in order to help protect against viruses, spyware and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials provides most of the protection methods that Windows Defender does with the exception of rootkit and bootkit protections.
It is important to note that Microsoft Security Essentials is designed to provide a basic level of free protection for home or small business PCs rather than important server infrastructure. Despite this, users with a very small amount of Windows server installations have been looking for ways to install Windows Defender in order to provide at least a basic level of security.
Apr 09, 2016 well yes I am using Windows Server 2012 as my main OS starting from today because when I tried running it using VMWare Player I kept getting errors when assigning IPs manually and the computers not seeing each other (Thread here) so I thought lemme try installing Windows Server 2012 on my main machine rather than a VM.
In Windows Server 2016, automatic exclusions are applied based on your defined Server Role. In Windows Server 2016, Windows Defender AV will not disable itself if you are running another antivirus product. The Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows Server 2016 topic contains set up and configuration information specific to Windows Server 2016. Aside from limited trials, there is no true free antivirus for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or Windows 2012 R2. That said, and while Microsoft does not fully support ityou can install Microsoft Security Essentials on Server 2012, below is how to do so. If we check the History tab of Microsoft Security Essentials we can then see the test file listed as a quarantined item, confirming that it is working correctly as intended in Windows Server 2012 R2. If we check the History tab of Microsoft Security Essentials we can then see the test file listed as a quarantined item, confirming that it is working correctly as intended in Windows Server 2012 R2. At home I run two servers on Windows Server 2012 R2, then I have a backup server offline with Windows Server 2012. Then I have two virtual servers running Windows Server 2012. One of the two virtual servers is used as a Remote Desktop server. So all my computer time, from any of my computers, or tablet (and phone) is done on this computer.
While this is not officially supported, it does provide an increased level of security that is better than nothing, however it’s recommended that you look into using a proper product that is fit for purpose such as Microsoft’s System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) which is an enterprise antimalware solution. SCEP does require paid licensing to work, so for a very small environment Microsoft Security Essentials can at least provide a basic level of security protection.
Although installing Microsoft Security Essentials in a server operating system is not officially supported, it does work and correctly detects threats, as we’ll see here in our example.
Microsoft Security Essentials Installation Guide For Windows Server
- Firstly you’ll want to download Microsoft Security Essentials onto your Windows server. Select the language of your choice and either 32-bit or 64-bit depending on the architecture your server operating system is using.
- Save the mseinstall.exe file somewhere locally on the server, do not simply run it as by default the installation will fail with the following error:
- To get around this error message, right click the mseinstall.exe file and select properties.
- From the properties window, select the compatibility tab. Within the compatibility tab tick “Run this program in compatibility mode for:” under Compatibility Mode and select Windows 7 from the drop down box, as shown.
Click OK to continue.
- If you were to run the mseinstall.exe file at this point, you would receive a different error as shown below:
In order to resolve this, run command prompt as administrator and enter the folder where the mseinstall.exe file is located. Run the mseinstall.exe file with the /disableoslimit flag on the end as shown below.
- The installation wizard should now correctly open and Microsoft Security Essentials can now be installed and will proceed without the previous error messages, click Next to continue and work through the installation wizard.
- Once the installation has completed you can optionally update and perform a scan, this is recommended as the definitions database needs to be kept up to date to find newer threats. An Internet connection will be required to download any available definition updates through the application, however these can also come through from Windows updates so if you have a WSUS server you can update from here as well. After updating a quick scan will take place.
You can select the Settings tab to modify when the weekly automatic scheduled scan takes place, by default a quick scan is set to run every Sunday at 2am and will not use more than 50% of the available CPU resources.
- Now that Microsoft Security Essentials has been successfully installed, we will test the actual functionality of the program to ensure that it will correctly identify a threat. To do this we will create a test EICARs file and see if the real-time protection automatically detects and quarantines it.
Essentially we are just going to open Notepad and create a .txt file containing the test string defined on that page and then save it to the desktop.
- Shortly after saving the file we have been visually alerted that malware has been detected and that Microsoft Security Client is taking action to clean the detected malware.
If we check the History tab of Microsoft Security Essentials we can then see the test file listed as a quarantined item, confirming that it is working correctly as intended in Windows Server 2012 R2.
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Summary
Although not officially supported, we have successfully installed Microsoft Security Essentials (a cut down Windows Defender) in Windows Server 2012 R2 and confirmed that it is working correctly and detecting security threats.
This is better than the default level of security, which is none as Windows Defender is only built into Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 client operating systems, however it is recommended that server operating systems make use of enterprise solutions such as System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) or some other option available from some security vendor.
Directly from the main page for microsoft Security Essentials download:
Supports Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
They indicate no other versions of the operating system are supported, so they aren't whether they are servers or other client operating system versions.
Aynone telling a customer that they are supported by Microsoft when using MSE on a server is either inept, foolish or outright lying. MSE is allowed to be used on up to 10 client systems in a business (not education or government), but never for use on servers.
The fact that it installs means nothing, it's simply a side effect of the detection logic used not blocking installation on some systems even though these are completely unsupported by Microsoft. Only a fool would risk their businesses operation installing an unsupported product on a server that they've spent thousands of dollars to purchase, plus software and labor costs as well.
Free Antivirus For Server 2012
On the same page for MSE that I provided the link to above, Microsoft has added the following, though the choice of an exact product to use should include an analysis of which is the best combination of features and protection for the specific size and type of business invloved.
Need security for your business?Microsoft Security Essentials is available for small businesses with up to 10 PCs. If your business has more than 10 PCs, you can help protect them with Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection.
Windows Defender Server 2012 R2
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