Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition

My company is a nation-wide (USA) consulting company.  We have 400 consultants in the field with BYOD laptops.  I would like to be able to use the on prem version of SEP to manage anti-virus and encryption.  Most of the documentation that I can find on this product covers how to push out installation through a domain or workgroup.  Is it possible to manage anti-virus and encryption in the situation I am describing.

I have installed SEP Manager (Small Business Edition) on an Azure server.  Installed the client on the server as well and I can see the server in my list of computers.

I created an install package for Windows OS and manually installed it on a laptop and the computer never appears in my list of computers.

Any direction would be appreciated.

It possible as long as tcp port 8014 is open to communicate to the SEPM. SEP works fine regardless of domain or workgroup. Do you see the green dot on the client to indicate communication is working?

Some documentation here:

How to install Symantec Endpoint Protection in a workgroup environment

Prepare computers to install the Endpoint Protection 12.1 client

The client does not appear at all in Manager.

And you exported a managed package? Not unmanaged...

Is the Windows fw off?