About Tasks

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Applies To: Forefront Endpoint Protection

You can manually initiate tasks in order to troubleshoot individual alerts. Tasks are accessed from the Actions pane in the System Center Operations Manager console. For a list of FEP Security Management Pack tasks, see Security Management Pack Tasks.

Note

The Operations Manager Web console does not support console tasks. For example, if you want to initiate an RDP connection to a client, you must use the Operations Manager console.

You may also want to override the default settings for specific tasks. For example, when running the Update Antimalware Definitions task, definitions will be updated based on the policy settings that apply to the target client. You can override the default task parameters and specify that definitions can be updated only via the UNC file share that is specified in the policy settings for the client.

Warning

If you run a task that conflicts with Group Policy settings that have been configured for the target client, the conflicting configuration settings specified by the task will be overwritten by Group Policy settings on the client. For example, if you run the task Turn Windows Firewall On and Group Policy settings specify to disable Windows Firewall on that client, Windows Firewall will not be enabled, even though the task reports a success status.

To view a task

  1. In the Monitoring view, expand Monitoring, and then expand Forefront Endpoint Protection. Select a view from the tree, and then locate the endpoint for which you want to see available associated tasks.

  2. Click the endpoint in order to highlight it.

  3. In the Protected Endpoint Tasks section of the Actions pane, view the tasks available for the selected endpoint.

    Note

    If the Actions pane is not displayed, click Actions in order to display it.

To view available overrides for a task

  1. In the Monitoring view, expand Monitoring, and then expand Forefront Endpoint Protection. Select a view from the tree, and then locate the endpoint for which you want to see available associated tasks and task overrides.

  2. Click the endpoint in order to highlight it.

  3. In the Protected Endpoint Tasks section of the Actions pane, click the task for which you want to view available overrides.

  4. In the Run Task dialog box, verify the selected target is correct, and then click Override in order to view available override settings for the task.

  5. When you are finished viewing the available task overrides, click Cancel to close Override Task Parameters, and then click Cancel.

To run a task

  1. In the Monitoring view, expand Monitoring, and then expand Forefront Endpoint Protection. Select a view from the tree, and then locate the endpoint on which you want to run a task.

  2. Click the endpoint in order to highlight it.

  3. In the Protected Endpoint Tasks section of the Actions pane, click the task that you want to run.

    Warning

    It is recommended that you use caution when selecting the Turn Windows Firewall On task. Turning on Windows Firewall may impact roles and workloads that are running on servers.

  4. In the Run Task dialog box, verify that the selected target is correct, configure any additional settings and overrides, and then click Run.