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Please bring back "Find Unmanaged Computers" Wizard from SEP 11.x

Created: 26 Oct 2011 | Updated: 26 Oct 2011 | 19 comments
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New "Client Deployment Wizard" is useless in finding unmanaged computers. It searches network but finds all machines not only those not managed by SEPM. I am a systems engineer and have worked with syamntec products for over 10 years and have been ivolved in many large deployments of SEP. To succesfully an efficiently deploy SEP  (with no need to use Altiris SEPIC) I need a tool which works like the good old "Find Unmanaged Computers" . The new wizard is useless for me.

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DougAuto's picture

Completely agree... Symantec got this "enhancement" for SEP 12 completely wrong.   Bring back the old way so I only receive a list of machines that actually need the software.

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Miggy's picture

Need this fuctionality to secure the environment!

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Belkin IT's picture

Absolutely agree. Symptomatic of a product being managed by engineers who don't or haven't ever used it in a real environment. Please just own up and commit to putting the functionality and simplicity back into the product.

 

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Mikeyv1970's picture

Symantec dropped the ball on this.  This and a number of other issues is why we are looking at McAfee and other products. We have 5,000+ clients...going the route of CA when they actually had decent AV.

 

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aplechaty's picture

I agree 150% dropping the ability to do a search for unmanaged clients is horrible. I used to be able to run a scan based on ip range and it would show me copmputers running the unmanged client and so forth. You run a scan now and it just lists all of the items with ip addresses. Bring back the old Find Unmanaged computers. PLEASE!!!

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Mithun Sanghavi's picture

 

Hello,

Count me in...

“Find Unmanaged computers” Feature removed in the SEP 12.1, this feature assists the Administrators to pull the record of the machines which have been detected across the network. The Unmanaged Detector feature would not provide administrator a Notification Report in their emails. However would not be able to generate a list of clients within SEPM.

Hope this feature comes back.

Mithun Sanghavi
Symantec Technical Support Engineer, SEP
MIM | MCSA | MCTS | STS | ITIL v3

Twitter: @mithun_sanghavi

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CBT's picture

We have to manage a 2500 client network and we issue IP's from a class-B network range. In order to determine if there are unmanaged/unprotected endpoints we must scan the entire 65,565 IP range.

We're spending good money on 3rd party tools to perform this task, why can't SEP do this for us?? The Symantec System Center Console in SAV 10 was great!

The search should be;

Fast -we could scan our class-b using the SAV Find Computer tool in under 1-hour

Accurate -the SAV tool was able to identify the version of Symantec and included the IP, Host name, parent server and was reliable as it used DNS

Results could be exported -We could export clients and manipulate the result data many ways. Add the list to an Active Directory group that installed Symantec AV for example

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sultan.ms's picture

Yes! Bring back the old Find Unmaged clients computers

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Hans-05's picture

You have my vote...

It will be better to have the functionality of both the "Find Unmanaged Computers" & "Client Deployment Wizard", as separate tools, rather than just having the CDW.

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Jack_B's picture

Absolutely, bring it back!!

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Ghaith Otoum's picture

Please , Bring back the old Find Unmaged clients computers ...

finding unmanged clients now is nightmare  

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SteveDoughton's picture

I do not have the administrator password of all the computers on our network and when a new, unprotected, computer is connected I am even less likely to have it.

I just need a way of indentifying these computers so that I can either get the admin password set, or get the user to install an exported package from a shared network drive.

The old Find Unmanaged Computers was slow and had poor useability but the new wizard is absolutely useless!

Why can you not select a package from Install Packages list in Admin? Why do you have to re-import one that you have exported?

 

 

 

 

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Ambesh_444's picture

Good one !!!Thums up ....

 

Thank& Regards,

Ambesh

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Neil Natic's picture

another agree from me... how could this be removed????

 

What are you guys using to substitute this functionality?

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FbacchinZF's picture

Symantec, Please bring it back !

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