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Note: Management servers migrate to clients.
Table 6-2
Migration summary
DescriptionActionStep
Prepare your legacy installation for migration as follows:
Disable scheduled scans.
The migration might fail if a scan is running during migration.
Disable LiveUpdate.
Conflicts might occur if LiveUpdate runs on the client computers during
migration.
Turn off roaming service.
Migration might hang and fail to complete if the roaming service is running
on the client computers.
Unlock server groups.
Unpredictable results might occur if the server groups are locked.
Turn off Tamper Protection.
Tamper Protection can cause unpredictable results during migration.
Uninstall and delete reporting servers.
Uninstall the reporting servers, and optionally delete the database files.
See your Symantec legacy virus protection software documentation for more
information.
Prepare the legacy
installation
1
Migrate the legacy group settings and policy settings.
See About migrating computer groups on page 58.
See Migrating group settings and policy settings on page 58.
Migrate legacy group
and policy settings
2
Verify and optionally adjust the migrated group settings and policy settings.
See Viewing assigned computers on page 81.
See Moving a computer on page 82.
See Viewing assigned policies on page 84.
See About adjusting the protection scans on page 124.
Verify migrated data3
Import your legacy license file into Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business
Edition.
See Importing a license on page 107.
Import legacy license4
Deploy the client to the legacy computers.
See About deploying clients on page 48.
Deploy the client
software
5
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