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  • 1.  Upgrade from 12.1.4103 to 12.1.6

    Posted Jul 14, 2015 02:43 AM

    We are about to upgrade my SEPM 12.1.4013 to lates 12.1.6 , we have few questions regard to this, we only have 1 spem server with 20 over GUP on our remote sites

     

    1.  if we upgrade the spem server to 12.1.6, is our existing 12.1.4 clients will still able to work ?

    2. is GUP on our remote offices will still work ?

    3. anyway to upgrade our GUP ( mainly on windows 2003 server ) in mass ?

     

    Thanks...



  • 2.  RE: Upgrade from 12.1.4103 to 12.1.6

    Posted Jul 14, 2015 02:47 AM

    1.  if we upgrade the spem server to 12.1.6, is our existing 12.1.4 clients will still able to work ?

    Yes Still work

    2. is GUP on our remote offices will still work ?

    Yes

    3. anyway to upgrade our GUP ( mainly on windows 2003 server ) in mass ?

    SEPM 12.1.6 upgrade below server 2003

    • Windows Server 2003 (32-bit, 64-bit, R2, SP1 or later)
    • Windows Server 2008 (32-bit, 64-bit, R2, RTM, SP1, and SP2)

    https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH224712.html



  • 3.  RE: Upgrade from 12.1.4103 to 12.1.6

    Posted Jul 14, 2015 03:15 AM

    Hello Piper28,

    What you are doing in right, thats the supported way of upgrade. First you would upgrade the SEPM, then upgrade the clients. SEPM is backward compatible it can manage all the previous versions of 12.X.

    Your remote GUPs would still work so do the clients even if you dont upgrade them , this gives you time to plan the upgrade.

    GUP is also a client, you upgrade them the same way as your clients. Put all GUPs IP address in a txt file.

    Import them during the migration and deployment method.

    This document will help you out on this

    https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.tech102907.html



  • 4.  RE: Upgrade from 12.1.4103 to 12.1.6

    Posted Jul 14, 2015 06:16 AM

    Yes, everything will work just fine after upgrade even though they will be on the old version. SEP 12.1.x can support any version of 12.1.

    To mass upgrade you can simple set the auto upgrade

    Auto Upgrade for Individual Groups

    Also, a new content structure was introduced in 12.1.5

    New features and fixes in Endpoint Protection 12.1.5 (RU5)

    Before upgrading I would suggest lowering your content revisions to something like 3 so you don't run out of space during the upgrade.

    SEP 12.1.5 was the first to include a bandwidth control option.

    Symantec Endpoint Protection Bandwidth Control for Client Communication



  • 5.  RE: Upgrade from 12.1.4103 to 12.1.6

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jul 16, 2015 01:10 PM

    Hi,

    Thank you for posting in Symantec community.

    I would be glad to answer your query.

    Q  if we upgrade the spem server to 12.1.6, is our existing 12.1.4 clients will still able to work ?

    --> Yes, definitely it will continue to work.

    2. is GUP on our remote offices will still work ?

    --> Yes, it will still work.

    3. anyway to upgrade our GUP ( mainly on windows 2003 server ) in mass ?

    --> You can push out latest packages on GUP machines but bandwidth can be a concern here OR  manually  upgrade 20 GUP's by running setup file locally.

    Follow the best practice guide to perform upgrade.

    Upgrade or migrate to Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.6

     

     

     



  • 6.  RE: Upgrade from 12.1.4103 to 12.1.6

    Posted Jul 20, 2015 11:15 PM

    Hi.. All thank you for your help.. it's really englighten the whole process