Hi All

My organisation are looking at buying Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition, we have 4 offices but with no connectivity between them, is it possible to just install the management console at one site and have that update the clients at every site (through TCP/IP or something similar) or would we need to have a management console on each site because we are not connected?

Any help will be great.

If you are no Wan connectivity beetween multiple silte,you can install each site SEPM.

because you are not Centerlize,so you can't manage other location SEP Client. 

Thanks for that information, the remote sites dont have a server and they are all running Windows 7 but SEPM does not support windows 7 (from what i have read) is there a way around this?

Hi

you can install SEPM on windows 7.

System requirement.

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager system requirements

Processor

• 32-bit processor: 1-GHz Intel Pentium III or equivalent minimum (Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent recommended)
• 64-bit processor: 2-GHz Pentium 4 with x86-64 support or equivalent minimum

Note: Intel Itanium IA-64 and PowerPC processors are not supported.

Physical RAM

• 32-bit operating system: 1 GB of RAM or higher if required by the operating system
• 64-bit operating systems: 2 GB of RAM or higher if required by the operating system

Hard drive

• 4 GB or free space for the server, plus 4 GB for locally installed database

Display

• 800 x 600

Operating system

• Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit, RTM and SP1; all editions except Home)
• Windows XP Professional (32-bit, SP3 or later; 64-bit, all SPs)
• Windows Server 2003 (32-bit, 64-bit, R2, SP1 or later)
• Windows Small Business Server 2003 (32-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 (32-bit, 64-bit, R2, RTM, SP1, and SP2)
• Windows Small Business Server 2008 (64-bit)
• Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (64-bit)
• Windows Small Business Server 2011 (64-bit)

Note: Clients before version 12.1 can be managed by this version of the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager, regardless of the client operating system.

Web browser

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8, or 9
• Mozilla Firefox 3.6 or 4.0

Database

The Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager includes an embedded database, and this is the only choice in Small Business Edition. In the Enterprise version, you may use the embedded database or one of the following versions of Microsoft SQL Server:

• SQL Server 2000, SP4 or later
• SQL Server 2005, SP2 or later
• SQL Server 2008 all Service Packs
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1

Note: If you install the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager and the SQL database on the same computer, a minimum of 4 GB of RAM is recommended

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH174720

No, if you do not have any connectivity between 4 sites then you have two options:

1. Install SEPm on each sites.

2. Install Unmanaged Clients on other siotes.

You can also go for Symantec.Cloud Endpoint which can be managed from Single Console which is residing in Symantec Datacenter.

Hello DreamOn,

To manage all the client centrally there should be connectivity between the clients and the Manager.

As you have mentioned I understand that there is no connectivity between each sites, hence you need to install Separate Manager at each location.

Also if there are less number of machines at a particular location then you can install an Unmanaged client which will take the update from the Internet.

--Cheers--

Hi All

Thanks for all your advice, each site has around 15-20 computers. on the requirements list on the website where we are going to purchase it from has the following...

Symantec Protection Center (management server):
• Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter Server, Small Business Server with SP3 or later; Windows XP Home, Professional (32-bit and 64-bit); Windows Server 2003/2008 (32-bit and 64-bit); Windows Small Business Server 2008 (64-bit); Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (64-bit)
• 1-GHz or higher Pentium III or equivalent 32-bit processor (Pentium 4 recommended); 2-GHz or higher Pentium 4 or equivalent x86-64 processor; Itanium processors not supported
• 1 GB or more RAM; 2 GB recommended
• 4 GB available hard-disk space

Is the above different from SEPM? (sorry i am new to all this)

Many Thanks

Protection Center is a centralized security management application. It enables organizations to identify emerging threats, prioritize tasks, and accelerate time to protection based on relevant actionable intelligence. Protection Center uses a combination of process automation and security intelligence to enable users to remediate incidents and proactively protect key systems and information assets.

Products that support integration with Protection Center

http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC4806

Finding Symantec Protection Center Documentation

http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC4852 

Thanks for that, I have one final question which is not related to the above, i will create a new thread if needed.

Is it possible to setup email notifcation if there is a virus found on a computer with Endpoint Protection Small Business installed?

Thanks.