Hi,
- In Mcafee, the policies will not associate the related clients when restored from backup set. Will this problem happen in SEP when restoring policies from backup set?
- I am sorry but the question has a grey area and does not seem to be clear. However FYI, In Symantec Endpoint Protection, policies are applied on groups and not on the clients directly. Hence, in a restore process, you restore policies on the group and thus in turn are applied to the clients belonging to that group. In Short, Restoring clients associated to their groups and restoring policies associated to their groups is an easy process.
2. About the types of access rights, is the administrative boundary clearly cut, no overlapping administrative area? For example, the person administers desktop clients will not be able to retrieve any information about server clients.
- Yes. Symantec Endpoint Protection suite provides a precise and well defined way of administrating the groups in one and/or multiple sites. We can deligate roles to specific administrators with either full or limited rights and access to that group. Hence, the person administering desktop clients will not be able to retrieve any information about server clients in a group.
3. Customer wants to remove the Mcafee EPO agent completely, preferably without reboot. Is this possible?
- Maybe. You may have to encode the multi string value " PendingFileRenameOperations " from the following registry entry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager " in a script and execute it with the uninstall tool for Mcafee. Uninstall Wrapper should benefit you at your own risk.
4. Customer does not have Altiris or similar software, can the SEPM process all the central deployment?
- Yes. SEPM can deploy the SEP clients centrally. But as SEPM provides multiple enhanced features in synchronization with a database in the background, that makes the SEPM a heavy product. I personally would recommend you to use Migration and Deployment wizard for the deployment of the SEP client package. It is easy, efficient and reliable.