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Backup and Archiving Community

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Gestalt IT’s Virtualization Tech Field Day event

Swathi Turlapaty

Admin

Symantec IMG is hosting Gestalt IT’s Virtualization Tech Field Day event in Mountain View on Thurs. Feb. 23 at 8 am PT where we will engage a dozen industry bloggers, vExperts, independent thought leaders and key influencers and provide a technical overview of Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup 7....

Posted: 10 Feb 2012

Endpoint Management Community

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How To Install Symantec Management Platform 7.1

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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 | 26 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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Converged Infrastructure: Tabasco sauce not included

E. Hennessey

Symantec Employee

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I was fortunate enough during my many years in the military to have been assigned to fixed-base communications units, meaning it was only on rare occasions that I had to choke down those infamous MRE (meal, ready to eat) rations that the US military hands out to personnel deployed in the fie...

Posted: 14 Feb 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 | 11 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 49 min ago

CraigV commented on: Backup Exec 12.5 cannot identify HP LTO 1/8 Ultrium-3 Auto G2

OK...go back to Device Manager...if the robotics doesn't show up there, then follow pkh's advice and log the call with HP.

discussion comment 54 min ago

postechgeek commented on: New Risk Found Report - 12.1 RU1

Thank you for information. I understand. The issue that I'm having is the "New Risk Found" notification isn't listed here - SEPM->Monitors->Notifications>Notification Conditions. But, the notification is being sent on a risk event. Is there another place I can check? Mike

updated discussion 57 min ago

siddesh.onkari@nestle.com posted: Importing BackupExec Medias in Netbackup 7.1.0.1 with NBAC enabled

I need a solution Hi techies, Situation: I am importing the medias which has the data backed up using BackupExec12. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH43584 In the first phase of import I am getting error 15:32:01 Mount of Backup Exec media with media id KRB710 having ...

new discussion 59 min ago

Rodrigo Sabino posted: Error "0xe0008443 - One or more SQL Database consistency checks have failed" appears in the backup job log while backing up Microsoft SQL Server or SQL databases.

I need a solution Hi team, This type of error occurring in this process backup.Veriquei site symantec solution of this error code "0xe0008443". Ran the recommendations of the V-79 57,344 to 65,085, but error still continues. Regards, Rodrigo Sabino (Backup and Archiving, 2010, Backup Exec, Agent ...

new discussion 59 min ago

SymNewUser posted: To create new dialog while installation

I need a solution Hello experts, I have a scenario where I need to create a new dialog while installation which has checkboxes to select different .exe files are selected by user and shortcuts for the same to be created in a specific path in the system. Any idea how can I achive this? Currently, all the ...

discussion comment 1 hour 1 min ago

NRaj commented on: Error 1920

1920 is a known issue. Some of the work arounds are to check Dcomm settings and a repair install. At times virus infection is also known to have caused this. If it is not an infection, a re-install would fix this.

discussion comment 1 hour 4 min ago

AmolZeroCool commented on: Backup Exec Agent Question.

If you have a valid maintenance then you may directly upgrade to BE2010 R3

discussion comment 1 hour 10 min ago

luke.s commented on: Que es un SLA en Asset Management Suite.

Hola Jose, Es un gusto poder ayudarle en Español. En Asset Management Suite el SLA (Service Level Agreement) es un tipo de elemento de configuración de Contracto. Un Acuerdo de nivel de servicio (SLA) especifica los servicios que undistribuidor o un proveedor de servicios suministra bajo un contrato determinado. Saludos,

discussion comment 1 hour 12 min ago

MKruining commented on: connecting to client and time outs when wanting to create backups or images.

my image was not attached, so here it is (the error message).