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Backup and Archiving Community

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Information Anesthetic: Taking the Pain out of Backup

Simon Jelley

Symantec Employee

It seems like businesses are looking at modernizing backup like it’s a trip to the dentist: too time-consuming and painful, and always costly! So they end up taking shortcuts, hoping that the cavity of data loss will never occur. But just as advances in dental techniques have taken much of the...

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 | 2 comments

Endpoint Management Community

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How To Install Symantec Management Platform 7.1

ziggy

1. Summary This article details the steps I took to install the Symantec Management Platform (SMP) 7.1 on a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 VM, with 8 CPU's, and 16GB Ram. These steps worked flawlessly for me, but should be reviewed with your architect first to ensure th...

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | 25 comments

Endpoint Virtualization Community

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Virtualized Internet Explorer 6 for Windows 7

karl_bunnell

Symantec Employee

Adoption to Windows 7 is accelerating and migrations from prior versions of Windows to Windows 7 are really starting to pick up steam. One significant impediment to migrating to Windows 7 is the lack of native support for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) on Windows 7. Many enterprises still rely on interna...

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 | 65 comments

Storage and Clustering Community

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Using Symantec FileStore in VDI Deployments

Ruchi Goyal

Symantec Employee

In this video, Product Manager Ruchi Goyal, discusses the implementation challenges of desktop virtualization and how Symantec FileStore addresses those challenges to provide the best VMDK storage farm solution. Resources: White paper:Scale-Out Storage Optimized for VMware Virtual Desktop Infra...

Posted: 09 Jan 2012

Security Community

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A Reminder about Rootkits

John H

Symantec Employee

Rootkit stories show up in the mainstream media on a regular basis these days. While these stories raise public awareness about what the bad guys are doing, they usually leave readers wondering what they can do to protect themselves from silent threats infecting their computers at home and i...

Posted: 18 Jan 2012

Inside Symantec Community

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Better Backup For All

Deepak Mohan

Symantec Employee

Explosive information growth is not new news for organizations anymore – it is becoming the norm. The incredible strain this growth puts on infrastructures designed to manage and protect it has been a growing concern for years, though much more accelerated in recent times as virtualization and...

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | 10 comments

Vision User Conference Community

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DISCOVER THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE

LeslieMiller

Admin

What powers your IT career? If the answer includes deep technical knowledge, up-close access to experts, and productive connections with your peers, you won’t want to miss Symantec Vision 2012. Join us this year for even more hands-on labs, technical breakouts, in-depth training, and one-on-on...

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 | 3 comments

Partners Community

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Backup Exec Deduplication Assessment Tool

GFK

Symantec Employee

Technical introduction to the upcoming Backup Exec Deduplication Assessment tool, designed to enable partners to demonstrate the value of Backup Exec deduplication technology within customer environments by scanning server resources and generating accurate deduplication assessment reports.

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 | 4 comments

Developers Community

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Validation and ID Protection Service (VIP) Developer Test Drive

Kimberley

Admin

The Symantec™ Validation and ID Protection Service (VIP) Developer Center provides free APIs and implementation documentation for a pilot test environment. By using the Symantec VIP APIs, you can evaluate, test, and integrate VIP two-factor authentication into your own online applications. Va...

Posted: 29 Jun 2011

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discussion comment 3 min ago

Tom Mc commented on: KeyServer.pgp.com issues

The following is from the Global Directory Help file, it might be of help: I tried to upload my key to the PGP Global Directory, but I received an error message. What happened? It could be one of several things: the key you tried to upload may be expired or revoked, or it may not have an email address that can be verified. Expired and revoked keys are not allowed on the PGP Global ...

discussion comment 6 min ago

mclemson commented on: Using DS 6.9 and 7.1 simultaneously

Just pull your images into 7.1. You can leave the rest of your jobs behind in 6.9, which can continue to work as AClient or DAgent alongside 7.1's Symantec Management Agent with the Deployment Solution plug-in. You can import images by using the ResourceImportTool at: :\Program Files\Altiris\Altiris Agent\Agents\Deployment\Task Handler\Tools\ResourceImportTool.exe You can read ...

discussion comment 6 min ago

andykn101 commented on: can istall dot net 3.5 with ds 6.9

You need to download the full install package, dotnetfx35.exe: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=25150 When DS runs the installer stub it's probably using the local system account that doesn't have rights to access the internet to download the rest of it.

new discussion 7 min ago

robnicholson posted: Migrate catalogs to new location

I need a solution Does this procedure still apply to BE 2010 R3 before I follow it? http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH29603 Thanks, Rob. (Backup and Archiving, Backup Exec, Configuring) () Symantec, Backup Exec, Configuring Does this procedure still apply to BE ...

discussion comment 12 min ago

mclemson commented on: SQL Query to include computer type ie. workstation, laptops, etc.

There are two ways to do this. You can do a CASE WHEN based on Chassis Type, or you can do a CASE WHEN based on Computer Model. If you do Model, it's something like this SELECT vc.Name, vc.[OS Name], vc.[OS Revision], hwcs.[Model], 'Computer Type' = CASE WHEN hwcs.[Model] LIKE 'Optiplex%' THEN 'Desktop' WHEN hwcs.[Model] LIKE ...

discussion comment 12 min ago

Aryanos commented on: Multiline Textbox and Internet Explorer 8

I found out what causes this to happen and it's the SpellCheckComponent. I usually put this on a form if there are textbox components so that is why it's happening. Weird that it works properly in other browsers but not in IE. Is this a bug or is it working the way it's supposed to?

updated blog entry 14 min ago

Eileen posted: New Certification Badge on Symantec Connect

We have just launched a new feature on Symantec Connect today that I think you'll really like. For those users that have been "Certified" by Symantec (aka: Symantec Certified Specialist or SCS) you will now see a blue "certification" badge next to the users name. The certification program here at Symantec combines our data protection, high availability, and security credentials ...

new discussion 15 min ago

KKelly posted: Ghostcast issue. Error 19913

I need a solution First of all I am totally new to the ghostcast world. I had a working ghostcast server and working usb boot disks, but earlier this week the server itself crashed. So I cannabalized another server we had and brought it back to life. I used the hard drives and nic card from the first Ghost cast server ...

discussion comment 16 min ago

RahulG commented on: Exchange + BackupExec + iSCSI best practice

Backup exec does a file level backup and synthetic backup is also a file level backup . IF you want to perform a block level backup I would suggest you to use backup exec system recovery

discussion comment 19 min ago

Chris Warren commented on: HELP - archiving and retrieval not working

It 'seems' like the initial connectivity to Exchange is okay: CArchivingAgent::ArchiveItem() |Everything has been successful up to this point, so we are going ahead and calling ProcessItem. | But it seems to die when it is accessing an item in A2 perhaps. I probably would end up stopping the task, purging the A2 queue and Admin queue and start it up again (could be a corrupt ...