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Symantec Mobile Management 7.0 is a new product providing rich management capabilities for Windows Mobile and CE devices.

Features of this product include

• Built on the Symantec Management Platform 7.0 and integrated with Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile Edition
• Enhanced over the air agent deployment and management
• Inventory for hardware, system, and software
• Software Management including software delivery and application healing
• Remote Control
• Real Time Systems Management including remote registry and file editors

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Everyone knows USB drives are a huge chance for losing data.  I found a way to make that worse.
 
I bought a USB drive for my wife to use on her personal laptop.  We all carry at least one of these.  Her drive stopped be recognized, let alone work on the system. 

Since it had only been used 3 times, i wanted the manufacturer to replace it under warranty.  They offered to exchange it only if i send it back with drive intact.  I was shocked that they required me to send it back.  They had a fax number that if i was with the government and can send letterhead of such an organization asking to not send the drive, and they will exempt it.

So a new drive cost $60-$150 depending on size.  Having personal, let alone any corporate data on the drive and it falls into the wrong hands, which if it is being sent in a box that says what company makes the drive or is addressed to the company, it would be easy for someone...

This is a basic but helpful approach to environments with one SEPM and many locations with small numbers of clients.

We have deployed SEP to our retail locations (approx. 160) where each store is it's own group of clients and each store falls into one of eight retail regions.  The way to get SEP clients to report to a specific group after install is to export the install package from the SEPM and associate it with a particular group.  We have had much success with creating a "Deployment" group within the console and exporting an install package from this group.  This way we install all of our retail locations to this group, and we can manually assign clients to their appropriate group via the Symantec Console.  Each store uses all the same policies (shared) except for their LiveUpdate policy, which is a non-shared policy used to identify a GUP for each store.  So far this has gone very well, and rollout went from being a "...

The April 2009 issue of CIO Digest is now available and includes a special Executive Q&A with new Symantec President and CEO Enrique T. Salem and interviews with C-level thought leaders from organizations such as Unum Group, Memorial Hermann, Reliance Communications, and more.  

The Executive Q&A with Salem covers a number of topics, from his leadership approach, to the key initiatives he’s spearheaded in prior roles at Symantec, to a special sidebar tribute to John W. Thompson’s 10 years of ten-fold revenue growth. The Cover Story is an interview with Lynda Fleury, the AVP and CISO at Unum, who discusses how there is no “Alpha” or “Omega” for an information...