Comments on John Croson's Blog Home: Symantec Endpoint Protection...blech

UPDATE 4/15, 8:45am. Boy, I'm getting tired of loo...

2008-04-15T08:44:00.000-05:00

UPDATE 4/15, 8:45am. Boy, I'm getting tired of looking at this....

Note to anyone reading: REBOOT YOUR TERMINAL SERVER IF YOU DEPLOY SEP TO IT. You'll be getting angry emails if you don't...

SEPM is still exhibiting the "broken image linking" when viewing inside an RDP session, but not on the console...strange but true for me.

I've recreated my 11.2000 client package to

UPDATE: 4/15. Good thing I took care of my taxes y...

2008-04-15T08:22:00.000-05:00

UPDATE: 4/15. Good thing I took care of my taxes yesterday, becuase I doubt I'll be thinking of them today.

Finally got SEPM installed last night before I left for the day. What a bummer. This is what I've discovered, while doing an in-place upgrade from MR1 to MR2.

1. You CAN install over the top of your original installation. I've noticed a couple of odd behaviors

UPDATE 4/14, 2pm.I've uninstalled this crap twice ...

2008-04-14T14:04:00.000-05:00

UPDATE 4/14, 2pm.

I've uninstalled this crap twice now...

Can't they just get the installer right? Each time I tried to install over the previous version, my IIS Symantec web gets hosed, and the installer fails...

This is a PITA!

UPDATE - 4/14: Good news. Just started downloading...

2008-04-14T14:01:00.000-05:00

UPDATE - 4/14: Good news. Just started downloading MR2, and found this quote on the FileConnect site:

Product Description:
Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 Maintenance Release 2 (MR2) has been released. This release contains a new build of the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM version 11.0.2000) and the latest version of the Client binaries (version 11.0.2000).