Endpoint Protection

The latest available version of Symantec Endpoint Protection is 11.0 Release Update 6a
The version number for that build is: 11.0.6005.562

The release notes detailing fixes in this build are located here: http://service1.symantec.com/support/ent-security.nsf/854fa02b4f5013678825731a007d06af/2c62c4ee0e697aae882573b000034ded?OpenDocument
Migration instructions are located here: http://service1.symantec.com/support/ent-security.nsf/854fa02b4f5013678825731a007d06af/6f5427dfdd4a0cc18825770400611b5a?OpenDocument

RU6a is available to download from the following locations: 

Client Only patches: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/downloads.jsp?pid=54619
Symantec FileConnect: https://fileconnect.symantec.com (login with serial number required)
Symantec BCS: https://www-secure.symantec.com/platinum/en/products/all/sep_11.0/

RU6a is currently available in the following languages: English

RU5 is currently available in the following languages:  French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Simplfied Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Are there Best Practices white papers for Small Business Server 2008 as there were for SBS2003 including exclusion policies?  SEP is apparently affecting the SBS console reporting, particularly "Other Alerts."  Its very slow and seems to be only related to SBS2008 servers with SEP installed from what I'm researching reading Microsoft forums and here as well.

Pete

I'm trying to patch vulnerability http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2370 in LUA Apache Tomcat.  What is the best way to patch this vulnerability.

Hi Paul,

Any updates on SBS 2008 we need to keep in mind? We did see some issues with DHCP and DNS on the SBS itself when only installing the AV AS components.

SEPM is eating away the RAM as well...

Jurgen

The link provided for migration instructions is identical to the link for the version release notes. There are no migration instructions located on that page.

thanks right ..
do we have newer detailed SEPM migration proceedures available?

hey i will try it but i have update..........

Paul it would be nice if the known new bugs would be listed or linked here together with the information and release notes of the new version.

A lot of users wait with new releases to make sure there are no crucial bugs that might affect them. It would therefore be good to have them all collected in one place so that we can make a good judgement to which version to use.

I also added this idea that you can vote for here:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/idea/recommended-version

Thanks Maximilian for the link...

ETA for next version?

The next version is SEP MR5 (  RU5) and it would be released by end of this month.

Hm.. I'm confused. i heard that SEP v12 already been released ?

but how come SEP v11 MR5 still about to be release at the end of September 2009 ?

SEP 12  is Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition  .It is a for SMB. And SEP MR5 is next relaese for SEP 11.0 that is for enterprise

SEP 12.0 was released for small customers/businesses  (5 to 99 seats) whereas SEP 11.0 is for big companies. 

SEP 11.0 MR5 will be able to support Windows 7 and hopefully minimize  problems on this operating system.

Can you please tell us what issues have been fixed in RU5 since it is on eor two weeks away to release date?

Chenh , we still don't have the release notes for SEP MR5 ., untill and unless we don't have that we can't say anything. so please wait for  for some time .

MR5 will support windows 7 and 2008 r2 and there has been some improvement  to GUP( The improvements are yet to be known) .

Check this out for What's new
http://service1.symantec.com/support/ent-security.nsf/854fa02b4f5013678825731a007d06af/a6002e807c22bf37882575fc007a0d7c?OpenDocument

@ Andrew : Thanks for posting the link. However, the real exploration of all these new things will be done once the new version is released.

Aniket

Thanks for posting that link Andrew... It looks like some enhancements have been made (hopefully they all work).  Since it was modified today it hopefully means RU5 will be released soon.

Just when I was getting used to MR4MP2 - I'm doing a big push in 2 weeks to over 3500 users.  Should I really consider MR5?

I think I'd rather wait a while.

I  would request you to wait for MR5 as it will support  WIndows 7  and 2008 server R2

Does SEP MR5 support Mac? and Linux? hope they could incorporate them with SEP to make it a one apps package... thanks...

No SEP MR5 will not  have support for MAC or Linux

Files are now on the ftp site ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/symantec_endpoint_protection/11.0/updates thanks Symantec for advising us :(

Hi,

Just want to share this link: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2009072315130848
 

Highlights:

New platform support, including Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, and SQL Server 2008 (for the SEPM) and Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Vista SP2 for the client.

 

New features, including the Symantec Endpoint Protection Support Tool, enhanced Group Update Provider functionality, reduced client installation package export size, and new host integrity policy checks.

OK, I'm assumming there has been a ton of testing go into this.  I'm going to deploy to 3500 users in the next 3 weeks.

Here's hoping the suprises are minimal.

It appears that Symantec wants to call the new Releases - Release Updates.

So this new RU5 is being downloaded to my test environment as we speak.  I had to start with my management console, stop the services, reboot then update my existing MR4MP2 version.  I'll let you know how it goes.  I'm going to be updating 25 users - that's all I have for testing purposes so far.

Thanks for the heads up Symantec.

Unfortunately all this testing eats up time..... :( 

@Tech Support, any idea when a maintenance release will be out for SEP SME v12 that will fix the 'Symantec Endpoint Protection is on but is reporting its status to Windows Security Center in a format that is no longer supported' error, and add support for Windows 7?

Release 5 seems to work fine.  We are in the process of rolling out to several hundred each night until complete.  Testing was successful.

...QuickBooks 2007 or 2008 and its Database Server agent.

It will wreak havoc when trying to open up QuickBooks company files...