Manually update Forefront Endpoint Protection and Client Security

Sometimes in FEP 2010 and FCS you need to force a signature update. There are two ways of doing this. Firstly, Microsoft supply a download of the latest signatures at this link

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935934

The package you download can update both FCS and FEP 2010.

To manually start the signature update from the client software run

MpCmdRun.exe -SignatureUpdate

In FCS you should therefore run

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront\Client Security\Client\Antimalware\MpCmdRun.exe -SignatureUpdate

In FEP 2010 you should run

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\Antimalware\MpCmdRun.exe -SignatureUpdate

On Windows 7 you should run MpCmdRun.exe with elevated privileges or from an elevated command prompt.

Don't forget that because the path to the executable contains spaces you'll need to use quotes if run in a Run Command Line step in a Task Sequence.