Hi Swade --
Some background on Multi-tier Protection SBE and Protection Suite SBE are both Suites witih multiple products.
Multi-tier SBE contains SEP 11.x (endpoint security), SMS for Exchange (mail security) with Anti-SPamand few other products
Protection Suite SBE contact SEP SBE 12.0 (endpoint security), SMS for Exchagne (mail security with Anti-Spam, Backup Exec System Recovery for Desktops and few other products.
So when you move to Protection Suite SBE, you do you have move from SEP 11 to SEP SBE 12.0.
There are 2 components to it:
1) The Clients
2) The Management Server
The Clients can be simply upgraded from SEP 11.x clients to SEP SBE 12.0 clients using the SEP SBE 12 management server. The new management server has a Client Deployment Wizard which can push out clients to all the endpoints on your network.
However, for the management server you have to uninstall the SEP 11.x management server and install the SEP SBE 12.x management server. Policy migration is not supported. This is primarily because these are 2 different prodcuts with different features and so there is no 1:1 mapping of all policies.
Hope that helps. Feel free to ask more questions and we can try and help you through the install.
best regards,
Nimesh.