Please please please please fix this issue - The URL field within the Install Packages option that is MISSING! When I updated my clients to MR3 I used this option by going to Clients > Select my group of users > Install Packages > Add Client Install Package > From here I was able to input a URL from where my clients would be able to download/install the client. This worked beutifully for me. The reason it worked beutifully is because I have endpoints at many remote locations that have minimal bandwidth between them and the SEP Manager. By being able to specify a URL to download from I could give it the URL to a PC which I set up at that remote location as an HTTP server and the clients would download from that (as opposed to traversing our small network pipe between the endpoints and manager (which would clog bandwidth)). Why did you get rid of it???? I've been told on a few different calls I have made for other issues I have had that this will come back in MR4 MP2. I'm holding you all to your word on this. So if it doesn't come back I will be a very disappointed customer.
Besides that, the other problem I have is that on a few PCs in the company the xfer folder fills up with a lot (100's even 1000's) tmp files. It quarantines all these tmp files as well. As you can imagine, this eats up the hard drive. I end up having to manually delete all these files. Unfortunately, they do come back. Lately, I think deleting the xfer_tmp and BadPatts folder helps to clear the problem as well. So this is also a big problem because the log file grows out of control with all these false-positives. Now going back to my problem with the small amount of bandwidth, these log files are huge and they're traversing that small pipe communicating with the SEPM the log files. I have to admit things have gotten better and here are some things I did that may help out some other people who are having this problem and reading this post:
Navigate remotely into the machine (I use psexec which is a Microsoft tool. Google pstools. Within the tools is psexec. psexec into the PC in question (psexec
\\pcname cmd.exe). that will take you into the command prompt on the remote computer. Now navigate to c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\symantec\
Now within this folder go to Symantec Endpoint Protection > xfer > type in del /q /s *.* (This will delete everything in that directory)
now go back a directory (cd ..) go into the quarantine folder and type in again del /q /s *.* (Again... this will del everything in that dir).
Now, change directory back (cd ..)
rmdir /Q /S BadPatts
rmdir /Q /S xfer_tmp
That seems to get rid of that problem
If you upgraded from SAV8, 9, or 10, there might be a Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition folder as well. Go into that, then go into the 7.5 folder. sometimes the xfer folder in this directory is the problem. My opinion is that you can remove that whole entire directory structure (Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition) assuming you're on MR3 or later as that directory structure isn't used. It uses the Symantec Endpoint Protection folder instead.
Hope this post emminates my frustration and also serves to help someone with problems similar to mine.