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Table Of Contents
- Implementation Guide for Symantec™ Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition
- Technical Support
- Contents
- 1. Introducing Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition
- About Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition
- About the types of protection
- Single console management
- How you are protected out-of-the-box
- Key features of Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition
- Components of Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition
- Where to get more information about Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition
- 2. Planning the installation
- 3. Installing Symantec Protection Center
- 4. Preparing for client installation
- 5. Installing the Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition client
- 6. Migrating to Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition
- 7. Starting the Symantec Protection Center console
- 8. Monitoring endpoint protection
- About monitoring endpoint protection
- Viewing the Daily Status Report
- Viewing the Weekly Status Report
- Viewing system protection
- Viewing virus and risk activity
- Viewing client inventory
- Finding unscanned computers
- Finding offline computers
- Viewing risks
- Viewing attack targets and sources
- About events and event logs
- 9. Managing security policies and computer groups
- 10. Managing content updates from LiveUpdate
- 11. Managing notifications
- 12. Managing product licenses
- 13. Managing protection scans
- About managing protection scans
- How protection scans work
- About the default protection scan settings
- Enabling File System Auto-Protect
- Scheduling an administrator-defined scan
- Scanning computers
- Updating virus definitions on computers
- About managing quarantined files
- Enabling or disabling TruScan proactive threat scans
- About adjusting the protection scans
- About exceptions
- 14. Managing firewall protection
- 15. Managing intrusion prevention protection
- 16. Managing administrator accounts
- 17. Managing disaster recovery
- A. Maintaining and troubleshooting Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition
- Restarting client computers
- Finding managed computers
- Converting an unmanaged computer
- Finding the server host name and IP address
- Modifying email server settings
- Modifying the server installation settings
- Investigating client problems
- Troubleshooting Symantec Protection Center communication problems
- Troubleshooting content update problems
- Providing information for Symantec Support
- B. Managing mobile clients and remote clients
- Index
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Installation planning (continued)
DescriptionActionStep
Make sure your computers comply with the minimum system requirements.
See “System requirements” on page 25.
Review system
requirements
Step 3
Uninstall other virus protection software from your computers.
See “Preparing your computers for installation” on page 28.
Prepare computers for
installation
Step 4
Identify the user names, passwords, email addresses, and other installation
settings. Have the information on hand during the installation.
See “About the Symantec Protection Center installation settings” on page 33.
See “About the client installation settings” on page 47.
Identify installation
settings
Step 5
Install Symantec Protection Center.
See “Installing Symantec Protection Center” on page 31.
Install serverStep 6
Optionally migrate policy and group settings from your Symantec legacy virus
protection software.
See “About migrating to Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition”
on page 55.
Migrate Symantec legacy
virus protection software
Step 7
Prepare for client installation as follows:
■ Identify the methods to use to deploy the client software to your computers.
■ Uninstall third-party virus protection software from your computers.
■ Modify or disable the firewall settings on your computers.
■ Prepare your computers for remote client deployment.
■ Set up the console computer groups to match your organizational structure.
See “Preparing for client installation” on page 41.
Prepare computers for
client installation
Step 8
Install the Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition client on your
unprotected computers.
Symantec recommends that you also install the client on the computer that
hosts Symantec Protection Center.
See “Installing the Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition client”
on page 45.
Install clientsStep 9
Identify the tasks that you want to perform after you install Symantec Endpoint
Protection Small Business Edition.
See “What to do after you install Symantec Protection Center” on page 37.
Identify post-installation
tasks
Step 10
Planning the installation
Planning the installation
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