Hello,

could anybody tell me how to hide the tray icon for one of my groups. I'm running a Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Buisness Edition Server on Version 12.0.1001.95. I allready created a new group for the affected servers.

Regards
Florian Wolf

How to show or hide the system tray icon on Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 12 clients

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH97207&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1304003649123Best,

Thomas

Hello Cycletech,

thank you for this KB article.

Is there any solution (i.e. to set a regkey) on servers with a managed client?

Florian

To hide the shield icon we will need to add the following registry (dword 32bit) and set the value to 0

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SMC\LaunchSmcGui

You will need to restart SMC service before you can see the effect.

When disabling SmcGui, the following functionalities are also disabled:

• No SEP icon on the system tray
• No ability to open the system logs from the client GUI
• No ability to see the firewall or SNAC status from the GUI (most customers will not install a firewall on their Terminal Server)
• No startup scans
• No delayed threat detection notifications
• No missing or out of date definition notifications
• Clients do not display all information in the Help & Support > Troubleshooting > General Information (Server, Group, Location, Policy serial number, etc)
• Clients locally show as Offline on the Help & Support > Troubleshooting > General Information view. In reality the client is still forwarding stateful information and log data to the Symantec Protection Center (SPC).
• Clients do not show the Logon Client status on the SPC client status view.

Hello w-d,

thank you for your help. Creating this regkey was the solution for my problem.

thanks fwolf for the confirmation. I am happy that could help