"Schooltech" wrote in message
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If your PC is not connected to a domain, you see in the SP2 Security
Center:
* A list of alert settings for the popup warnings
* Pop up warnings appear in the taskbar system notification area such as
"Your antivirus may be out of date."

As soon as you connect your PC to a domain, all these warnings disappear.

Microsoft in its infinite wisdom has not heard of domain users who aren't
plugged into the domain all the time, such as laptop users, or network
outages, or any other circumstance in which users of machines which are
plugged into the network might have their machines fail to continue to be
updated with automatic updates, or fail to receive antivirus updates.

It has apparently not occurred to Microsoft that
* since users can disconnect their machines from the network and still log
in, if the machine is not connected to the domain for an extended period
it
might not receive automatic updates and thus be vulnerable
* if the antivirus updating is not working for some reason, the machine's
antivirus product could still become out of date with no warning to the
user.

It's a little much to expect any support from MS either for what is a new
product. There appears not to be one single security document or any
useful
information on the Security Center.



That's because they assume that most domains are run by professionals who
will take their own precautions to ensure that the systems are up-to-date
(and possibly, these professionals will want to do their own testing before
deploying patches through something like SUS or SMS.) The automatic updates
+ security center features in SP2 is really geared toward pure home users,
but as others have mentioned, system admins can turn its components on or
off on domains.


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Colin Nash
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User