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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
Preparing for client
installation
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ Preparing for client installation
■ Configuring firewalls for remote deployment
■ Preparing computers for remote deployment
Preparing for client installation
Table 4-1 lists the steps to prepare computers for client installation.
Table 4-1
Client computer preparation
DescriptionActionStep
Identify the methods to use to deploy the client software to your computers.
See “About deploying clients” on page 48.
Identify client deployment
methods
Step 1
Uninstall all third-party virus protection software from your computers.
See “Preparing your computers for installation” on page 28.
Remove third-party virus
protection software
Step 2
Modify or disable the Windows firewall settings. Windows firewalls can
interfere with remote client deployment.
See “Configuring firewalls for remote deployment” on page 42.
Modify or disable firewall
settings
Step 3
Prepare your computers for remote client deployment.
See “Preparing computers for remote deployment” on page 43.
Prepare computers for
remote deployment
Step 4
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