This may be of interest to those who vote for or against this Idea: Symantec Security Response has recently (November 2011) released a new white paper on "Windows 8 Security" (http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/security_response/whitepapers/windows_8_security.pdf)

Voted Up Mick....

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early support is a very good idea for that =)

Voted up.

That will be a first!  I remember waiting 6 months or more AFTER XP Service Packs. With the release of Windows 8 to corporate customers within the next few months there's not much time for "Early".

I voted for this, although I'm not sure why we customers should need to "vote" for Windows 8 support.

If your interested in Windows 8 support, sign up for the SEP 12 RU2 beta:

https://symbeta.symantec.com/callout/?callid=1D5D3DD349C248E69B13977DA4DBF426

Upon installing Windows 8 (W8) on top of Windows 7 (W7), it said SEP12.1 (SEP) was not compatible. It gave the option to either uninstall SEP or stop installing W8 (no option to ignore and continue). I uninstalled SEP, and continued installing W8. Afterwards, I attempted to install SEP and it was successful. However, upon the next reboot, W8 gave me a boot error and attempted to fix it. Twice. Upon the third automatic reboot, it gave me the option to system restore back to the time before I installed it.

If you are installing W8 on a machine with an existing OS, I suggest a dual boot. Make a 30GB partition and boot-install from DVD onto the partition. Upon completion, and after each boot, W8 will let you select wich OS to boot from, so you can continue using W7 with SEP, while also booting from W8 without SEP, or until they start working together. (Note: If you attempt to install W8 on top of W7 partition, you can not uninstall it!)

Installing SEP12.1 on Windows 8 -

Attempt 1: After running SEP 12.1 from DVD: (E:\Setup.exe) autorun.inf

After choosing [Get help online]:

Attempt 2: After running SEP 12.1 from DVD: (E:\SEPx64\Setup.exe)

... more to follow ...

Very well, installed beta version 12.1.1959.1959:

Few errors after install/restart, fixed with the "Fix" button.

So far so good, but have noticed a lot of pop-up notifications coming from the shield icon on the taskbar:
(this is becoming noticed more frequenty than RU1) (and very annoying)

- will try to capture them all as they appear:

• dasHost.exe
• svchost.exe
• NTOSKRNL.exe FIX?(https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/nt-kernel-amp-system-ntoskrnlexe-blocking-message-repeatedly-appearing)

Still getting a lot of "Traffic has been blocked from this application: NTOSKRNL.exe svchost.exe dasHost.exe

• Change Settings
• Network Threat Protection
• Configure Settings
• Notification Tab
• Uncheck "Display Intrusion Prevention notifications"

This will remove the annoying popups, however will not show any network attacks.

Okay, I installed SEP 12.1 on my 64 bit Win 8 Enterprise Edition last week and I deselected the Application and Device control option during install. All seemed to go fine until reboot. Hosed my system. I would recommend against this risky venture until SEP is officially announced as being compatible with Win 8.

I agree, but only because I believe Symantec should be more responsive to changes in technology.

I believe Windows 8 will be another Windows ME or Windows Vista. Windows 8 and Server 2012 are terrible, and we will not be migrating to either Windows 8 or Server 2012.

Windows 8 and Server 2012 have been released - to those with Enterprise Agreements. And, yes SEP 12.1 RU1 MP1 does hose both of them.

Probably has something to do with that gawd-awful, and butt-ugly Start Menu. Just when things were starting to look good on the desktop, we get these plain, ugly squares as a start menu, and have to move the mouse over to some corner or another to be able to do stuff. Takes more mouse clicks to get to my apps. I could clutter up the desktop or taskbar, but then it would just look like that ugly start menu...

EKwang and Dsmith:  SEP 12.1 RU1 MP1 does NOT support Win8.

Also, we have an enterprise agreement and we don't have WIN 8.  Are you sure it is released?  As far as I know it is only released to manufg (RTM).

If you want to be part of the beta test for Win 8 Symantec support, some of the posts have the link for being part of the beta test.

Seems to be working more or less here. Haven't got GUI to work yet. Trying to get the Beta

I like how the whitepaper says "Security software vendors such as Symantec will be in the best position to detect, analyze, and prevent those attacks on customer’s machines."

I hope Symantec can release a version that supports Windows 8 by October--otherwise this seems like a stretch.  Full x64 support never came for SEP11, which in my mind means Symantec was extremely slow to truly support Windows 7.  It needs to be much more timely with Windows 8.

Have been running SEP version 12.1.1959.1959 (beta) on W8 RTM for a month now and everything has been running normally, updating properly. Had annoying popups in the beginning, but once i unchecked "Intrusion Prevention notifications" have had none since.

On a side note, install classic shell [http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/] on W8 and it will operate just as good as W7 does. No touchscreen required.

How do I get access to the beta? Wannted get this up and running! :)

https://symbeta.symantec.com/callout/?callid=1D5D3DD349C248E69B13977DA4DBF426

Beta Testing Opportunity

So, it looks like SEP 12.1 RU2 will work with the RTM version of Win 8 Enterprise, is that correct or did I read the announcement incorrectly?

Eric

So, Windows 8 has been out for over two months now for Software Assurance customers. Has anyone heard when the next version of SEP will be released. Not the beta, but the released upgrade?

Hello,

Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1. RU2 is Released.

Note: If incase you do not see the SEP 12.1 RU2 Release on Fileconnect, you may see the same in coming few days on your Fileconnect Account.

You may find the Latest Release of Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.RU2 from: https://fileconnect.symantec.com/

Product Highlights:

1) Extended Platform support

• Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
• Windows 8
• Windows Server 2012

2) Virtualization – Shared Insight Cache for VMware vShield

3) Improved Protection

• Improved STAR protection technologies
• Windows 8 ELAM support
• Windows 8 App remediation

4) Extended Management

• Web Services for 3rd party integration (i.e. RMM)
• SEP Management Plugin for Kaseya 2.0
• GUP roaming support for multiple subnets
• Remote Sylink drop support from the SEP Manager
• Expanded 3rd party security software removal – 130 products from 30 vendors

Article on this Latest Release of Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.RU2 are available, check these -

Knowledgebase Articles for Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1. RU2

Knowledgebase Articles for Symantec Endpoint Protection SBE 12.1. RU2

Reference:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/latest-symantec-endpoint-protection-released-sep-121-ru2-and-sep-110-ru7-mp3

Still not available for those of us licensed for Protection Suite. It's only been two weeks though... I'm sure it will show up in the next month or two.

I did get it with a temp license. What a pain. It only took two days to get a temp license, and that's only because I didn't want to spend hours on the phone with support.

hi - has finally shown up - have run into issues upgrading from 12.1RU1 to 12.2RU2 [backed up beforehand] - the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager service is not running and won't start, even after rebooting the server..  anyone else had this?

We had no issues.  I backed up the database in case of an issue running maintenance on it.  Then installed over the top and had no issues.  It ran the install, followed by the conversion (starts just after the install part finishes) and everything was clean.