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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
Table 5-1
Client installation summary (continued)
DescriptionActionStep
Uninstall third-party virus protection software from the computers.
See “Preparing your computers for installation” on page 28.
Prepare client
computers for
installation
Step 2
Installation prompts you to specify the computer group names and the protection
types.
See “About the client installation settings” on page 47.
Identify client
installation settings
Step 3
Installation prompts you to select one of the following client deployment methods:
■ Email Notification Installation
■ Remote Push Installation
■ Custom Installation
See “About deploying clients” on page 48.
Symantec recommends that you also install the client on the computer that hosts
Symantec Protection Center.
Deploy client softwareStep 4
About managed and unmanaged computers
You install client computers as managed or unmanaged computers.
Table 5-2
Client computer types
DescriptionType
Managed client computers use Symantec Protection Center.
Managed client computers are centrally managed; you
administer the computers from the console. Managed client
computers connect to your network. You use the console to
update the client software, security policies, and virus
definitions on the managed client computers.
In most cases, you install client computers as managed
computers.
You can install managed client computers as follows:
■ During initial product installation
■ From the console after installation
Managed computer
Installing the Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition client
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