Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition & SBS 2003

ABeale's picture

Can this be installed on Small Business Server 2003? The system requirements make no mention of SBS 2003.

drew at NF's picture

You're so right

This http://www.symantec.com/business/products/sysreq.jsp?pcid=pcat_security&pvid=endpt_prot_sbe_1 has

System Requirements

Operating System Requirements
Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition

  • Windows 2000 Professional/Server
  • Windows XP (32-bit, 64-bit)
  • Windows XP Embedded
  • Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit, 64-bit),
  • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit, 64-bit)
  • Windows Small Business Server 2008 (64-bit)
  • Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (64-bit)

Symantec Protection Center

  • Windows 2000 Server
  • Windows XP (32-bit, 64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit, 64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit, 64-bit)
  • Windows Small Business Server 2008 (64-bit)
  • Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (64-bit)

SBS 2008 is mentioned but SBS 2003 is not.

Any help Symantec?

Vikram Kumar-SAV to SEP's picture

It can be installed on SBS

It can be installed on SBS 2003 and it works great. SEP SBE does not use IIS hence it can be installed on any computer on which SEP can be installed.It is specially made for Small Business Environment and 90 % of SBS servers would be SBS 2003.So it won't make sense if it was not compaible on SBS 2003.
I have installed and tested it on Windows 2003 SBS and it worked fine.
Its written Windows 2003 (32,64 bit ) because it is supported on all available versions of Winows 2003.
However for Windows 2008 since it might not be compatible with Server Core so it has listed which 2008 servers it supports.

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nvakhari's picture

Supported on SBS 2003

Yep it works on SBS 2003 and SBS 2008  -- overisght and we will get that fixed.

(Vikram - it shoudl work on Server Core, did you have any problems while using SEP SBE 12.0 on Server Core?)

ABeale's picture

That's great, thanks.

That's great, thanks.