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Small Business Server 2003 R2 Standard & Security Software

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by depillow

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I have attempted to do an installation of Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 on my SBS server. What A mess. The CEICW won't start and run, and I have more issues that I must deal with after the installation.

What would be a much easier product to deploy in an SBS network? I am looking for sugestions and advice.

Thanks All,
Dennis Pillow

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by depillow

I have used Trend Micro on my Vista box since it's beta version. It works ok but it is very intrusive and a hog for memory and processes. I would be very reluckent to use this on an SBS server.

Do you have any input to this oponion?

by nimmo

We run Trend Micro on all our servers and clients and the only time we found Trend to hog resources is when it had a memory leak problem the other year, other than that the only time users see anything to do with Trend is when the login script runs.

by cg it

isn't bad... decent product to compete with Symantec's SBS suite.

Personally, the only symantec product I liked with SBS was their Corporate Server product which they discontinued.

In my experience, McAfee's products end up taking up to much system resources, and often conflicts with many applications.

My only experience with Trend Micro products was way back when PC-Cillin came bundled with software and often cause those old P3s to slow to a crawl. Haven't tried their products since then so ...can't say...

by depillow

I have used CA on several other boxes but never on an SBS server. Could you provide any real world issues and comments on using it on SBS 2003 R2 Standard?

by cg it

Administering the anitspyware on clients from the console. It can be a pain to get going because the Windows Firewall will block CA programs. Same with Antivirus definitions.

Before you deploy, you need to read the installation and management manuals and any articles on the CA support site.

The BrighStor backup utility is ok. it's modeled after Backup Exec. If you have Backup Exec I'd stay with it.

Desktop DNA migrator is a pretty good tool.

by depillow

Tody I was able to repair the installation of Symantec Multi-tier Protection 11.0 so as to be able to configure the CEICW settings for the firewall. To that end I was sucessfull and up to this point I have not seen any issues.
I had to uninstall the Symantec product completly and shut the server down. After a reboot everything was back to normal. I then followed the installation instructions that were posted on Symantec's site for installing on SBS 2003 R2. This made the install work and I then ran the CEICW three times to test the features.
Everything went well and I now have a server that is running Symantec Multi-tier Protection 11.0 along with hosting the Microsoft Accounting 2008 pro database and sharing across the network to 6 clients with no issues. I think I did ok.

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