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  • 1.  Flash Tutorials?

    Posted May 12, 2010 12:47 PM
    As I spend more time on the forums here I have noticed that some of the questions we get are common issues addressed in the administration guide.  I have also noticed that we have a fairly large group of followers in the Brightmail Gateway area and would like to hear from those people.  Would it interest you if I posted a weekly video/flash tutorial explaining common issues/configuration changes in the Appliance?

    One example would be a walk through of the initial setup process in the web UI.  Another possible tutorial would be a basic walk through of the virtual machine creation on VMWare ESXi 4.0.  I would also take suggestions in the form of comments on the posts and Private Messages.


    I look forward to hearing from you all,

    John


  • 2.  RE: Flash Tutorials?

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 12, 2010 02:17 PM

    That would be awesome to put in the Videos section, Its mostly SEP stuff.


  • 3.  RE: Flash Tutorials?

    Posted May 13, 2010 12:23 PM

    I think you are choosing the presentation mode too early.  People ask questions on the forums for three reasons - they can't be bothered to look it up; can't find/understand what they do find; or the manual isn't sufficient/nuanced.  So, you need to make it easy to find answers, and you need to make them understandable. 

    My concern with the video section is that it's yet another place to search - people who haven't looked at the manual, won't go looking in the video section.

    I suggest a forum FAQ section. Eventually the FAQs could build a new product documentation set that discusses common deployment scenarios and common configuration errors and oversights.  One thing the manuals are missing is a "Theory of operation".  the docs say WHAT to do, but not WHY you'd want to do it. They are task focused. Because of this, they rarely discuss side effects/cross connection considerations.

    If you added "sticky" topics (indexes) to the forums you could build a FAQ section that would easy to find.  Just a few of sticky topics that then link to popular problem/solutions would work.  Examples of sticky topics
    - DMZ deployment issues
      - Ports not correctly open - link to more info
      - NAT issues - link to more info.
    - Definition Update issues
      - ports open
      - time sync
    - Writing compliance rules
      - rule doesn't fire
        - groups apply inbound to recipient / outbound to sender

    Other support forums implement sticky topics - Symantec should too.