First, if it's Symantec Corporate Antivirus, which has been discontinued is it possible to buy a subscription for virus definitions without having to upgrade to something else.
a: if it comes with license and if licens have expired symantec antivirus wil not get definitins, you need to get new license, nortan will run fine without doing and upgrade, u first need to check the license

 if they have to upgrade to endpoint protection small business edition will they still need to have something like norton 360 installed on each of the pcs? Or is part of SEP small business loaded on to each of the clients to protect them from viruses, malware and such?

a: Nortan is consumer product not an enterprise, if u r planning to do an upgrade, uninstall nortan install small business on each pcs.

to install small business, read this document

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2009040814021448

You dont need training, just go through this forum wil get famiilar with the prodcut :)
 

It sounds like the best product for your environemnt would be SEP 12 SBE. SEP 12 comes with AV/AS, NTP, IPS, and is easy to set up (installation and deployment takes less than 20 minutes)  and you have the options to install only the features you want

Try a free 30 day trial  - http://www.symantec.com/business/endpoint-protecti...

If you have any questions or issues installing, please post back here in the forums.

Best,
Thomas

Hi Gallienus,

First off: wishing you the best of fortune in your new role! :)  I remember being very confused when I first started working with SBS 2003, but in time it's become quite familiar and easy to work with. SBS can be a capable all-in-one solution for small offices like you describe.  Just make sure that it does not run out of resources!!

Most of the advice to give will depend on what Symantec product the company decides to go for.  If those existing computers are using Norton 360 or similar, that's a consumer (as opposed to business) product and is very dependant on subscription to remain up-to-date.  Norton can't be centrally managed, like Symantec Endpoint Protection or Symanthec AntiVirus.  I've seen whole offices that had consumer products installed throughout, but it's better off going for something that is designed to do an Enterprise/business job.

Either SEP 11 or (prefereably) SEP 12 will work well with SBS 2003, and there are several bundles which sell those together wih Symantec Mail Security for MS Exchange (protection against virus and spam for the mail serve part of SBS).  I recommend reading the detailed product info for each that is available on Symantec's website, and also the following:

Best Practices documents for Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 on Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 (http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security....)

Best Practices document for Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange on Microsoft Small Business Server (http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-gate.nsf/...)

Please do feel free to put any further details or question to the forum, and best of luck once again!

Thanks and best regards,

Mick

Hi,

You may want to consider Protection Suite Small Business Edition as it also includes Mail Security for exchange 2003.

I have have just recently purchase this to deploy to a SBS network and it seems very straight forward to setup.

One point to note it the management sever uses a lot of memory, so I moved this to a separate server which just manages this.

Still trying to get my head around deploying the centralised exceptions, but think I'm starting to win.

Ill second the post above me and add that it also comes with Symantec Backup Exec Desktop Recovery software, which also works fantastically.