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  • 1.  Symantec Cloud server issues since Thursday night with no fix in sight

    Posted Feb 15, 2016 10:01 AM

    Clients are calling me about failures of the Sym.cloud product on their desktops.

    The email issued on Thursday night is not something they would receive, but I would have thought that the issue would be fixed over the weekend.

    I've called Tech Support who said that this issue is still not resolved, please be patient and wait.

    Seriously?!?

    With each passing week Symantec, you're giving me more and more reason to drop you as a vendor and take the security of my client's computers somewhere else.



  • 2.  RE: Symantec Cloud server issues since Thursday night with no fix in sight

    Posted Feb 15, 2016 10:12 AM

    Can confirm. Still having issues here as well.....



  • 3.  RE: Symantec Cloud server issues since Thursday night with no fix in sight

    Posted Feb 15, 2016 05:24 PM

    Right, and I have had to cancel the installation of two desktops until next week because either the download, the software update, or the connection to the back-end and licensing is liable to fail.  And today is the one day where almost everyone had the day off...

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    I tried, but obviously it did not work...



  • 4.  RE: Symantec Cloud server issues since Thursday night with no fix in sight

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 16, 2016 12:03 PM

    Hi,

    Support is aware of a delay on the Endpoint Protection Cloud servers that is causing clients to request a 13-digit Pin for activation. The concern is actively being addressed and should be resolved shortly with no action required on your part. Any agents requesting PINs are still secure and will activate soon.

    Refer this public document: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH218313

     



  • 5.  RE: Symantec Cloud server issues since Thursday night with no fix in sight

    Posted Feb 18, 2016 08:39 AM

    It appears that things are improving.  Emails for threats detected are slowly starting to appear (although they are days late), and the installations I performed eventually worked.

    Just the same, these recurring outages are not only tarnishing my reputation - by repeatedly forcing me to tell clients that everything is OK when they see red alerts on their screen - but Symantec's as well.

    Yes, it is technology and it breaks; I get that.

    But when subscriptions come up for renewal these clients are going to be less likely to want to continue to use a product that has as many problems as SEP.cloud has had over the past 6 months.  And they are going to question how good an MSP I am if I continue to promote this product.

    Chetan, please let your managers and their managers know that if they want partners and small businesses to use a cloud-based solution they absolutely need to ensure 24x7x365 availability.  You are a security company for goodness sake, BCDR is in your DNA.  System-wide outages, if they occur, simply shouldn't take as long as these have to resolve.  You either need to build more resilience into the system, or your development team needs to take a step back and re-architect the offering.



  • 6.  RE: Symantec Cloud server issues since Thursday night with no fix in sight

    Posted Feb 18, 2016 08:45 AM

    This issue has persisted for a week now.



  • 7.  RE: Symantec Cloud server issues since Thursday night with no fix in sight

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 18, 2016 10:24 AM

    Issue might get permanent resolved in less than 24 hours.



  • 8.  RE: Symantec Cloud server issues since Thursday night with no fix in sight
    Best Answer

    Posted Feb 22, 2016 10:06 AM

    Posed in the News Alerts (but no email was received)

    Friday, February 19, 2016 5:41:18 PM (News)
     
    News alert update
     
    We want to inform you that the temporary lack of connectivity we notified you about on Feb 11 and the activation delay on Feb 16 were resolved earlier this week. To lessen the impact on client computers we have extended the Agent upgrade release to continue through next week instead of the previously announced Feb 18 end date.