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Backup and Archiving Community

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First Availability for the gold build of Backup Exec 2012

James McKey

Symantec Employee

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(EDITED 2012-01-30: Changed to state the download is now available and highlighted the available video download) The gold build of Backup Exec 2012 is now available for immediate download as part of the First Availability program. If you have maintenance for Backup Exec (or are a partner) then ...

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | 2 comments

Endpoint Management Community

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How To Install Symantec Management Platform 7.1

ziggy

1. Summary This article details the steps I took to install the Symantec Management Platform (SMP) 7.1 on a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 VM, with 8 CPU's, and 16GB Ram. These steps worked flawlessly for me, but should be reviewed with your architect first to ensure th...

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | 20 comments

Endpoint Virtualization Community

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Virtualized Internet Explorer 6 for Windows 7

karl_bunnell

Symantec Employee

Adoption to Windows 7 is accelerating and migrations from prior versions of Windows to Windows 7 are really starting to pick up steam. One significant impediment to migrating to Windows 7 is the lack of native support for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) on Windows 7. Many enterprises still rely on interna...

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 | 65 comments

Storage and Clustering Community

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Using Symantec FileStore in VDI Deployments

Ruchi Goyal

Symantec Employee

In this video, Product Manager Ruchi Goyal, discusses the implementation challenges of desktop virtualization and how Symantec FileStore addresses those challenges to provide the best VMDK storage farm solution. Resources: White paper:Scale-Out Storage Optimized for VMware Virtual Desktop Infra...

Posted: 09 Jan 2012

Security Community

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A Reminder about Rootkits

John H

Symantec Employee

Rootkit stories show up in the mainstream media on a regular basis these days. While these stories raise public awareness about what the bad guys are doing, they usually leave readers wondering what they can do to protect themselves from silent threats infecting their computers at home and i...

Posted: 18 Jan 2012

Inside Symantec Community

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Better Backup For All

Deepak Mohan

Symantec Employee

Explosive information growth is not new news for organizations anymore – it is becoming the norm. The incredible strain this growth puts on infrastructures designed to manage and protect it has been a growing concern for years, though much more accelerated in recent times as virtualiza...

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | 6 comments

Vision User Conference Community

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DISCOVER THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE

LeslieMiller

Admin

What powers your IT career? If the answer includes deep technical knowledge, up-close access to experts, and productive connections with your peers, you won’t want to miss Symantec Vision 2012. Join us this year for even more hands-on labs, technical breakouts, in-depth training, and one-on-on...

Posted: 14 Jan 2012 | 3 comments

Partners Community

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Symantec Channel Marketing Update- December 2011

Tricia Atchison

Symantec Employee

As we close out the 2011 business year, I wanted to give a North America Channel Marketing Update. It’s been an exciting year for us as we had several solutions launches such as SEP 12, DLP and SAMG. If you have not had the opportunity to see the latest and greatest updates, please...

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 | 1 comment

Developers Community

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Validation and ID Protection Service (VIP) Developer Test Drive

Kimberley

Admin

The Symantec™ Validation and ID Protection Service (VIP) Developer Center provides free APIs and implementation documentation for a pilot test environment. By using the Symantec VIP APIs, you can evaluate, test, and integrate VIP two-factor authentication into your own online applications. Va...

Posted: 29 Jun 2011

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discussion comment 23 min ago

burndtjammer commented on: How to allow "Push Altiris Agent" privileges

Actions fall under the Console Menu view. The helpdesk group I wanted to be able to push the agent only has read here. I may have to add write for them here in order for them to be able to psuh the agent.

discussion comment 32 min ago

pkh commented on: BE Time Window

You can use BEMCMD to start the 3rd job. See my blog on how to accomplish this. https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/use-bemcmd-start-jobs

new discussion 35 min ago

RichardBoutilier posted: Node Count Per Site/Subnet/Location

I need a solution Hello All, Appreciate any help and/or advice... We have a very large envirnoment (over 30,000+ end points) We are in need of a report(with drilldown abilities) that will report the number of managed nodes in a given location(subnet, Organizational unit, location, etc) with a drill down that ...

discussion comment 36 min ago

pkh commented on: Trying to accomplish a B2D2T strategy

You can have two duplicate templates in your policy. The first duplicate template will be your regular duplicate template that you are using at the moment. The second duplicate template will point to your other tape library and runs only only the first Sunday of the month. Just make sure that you like the second duplicate template to the backup template. If you link it ...

updated article 1 hour 13 min ago

Joel Smith posted: Security Issue: Patching pcAnywhere’s vulnerabilities with Software Management in Symantec Management Platform

The purpose of this article is to make the patching as seamless and painless as possible. This process will let Software Management’s intelligent software worry about what systems have pcAnywhere installed, which have the correct version for the patches, and whether or not those patches are applied. If they are not applied, they will automatically apply them. Please see the attached ...

updated idea 1 hour 27 min ago

Todd D. Woodward posted: Non-Appliance NetBackup PDDO to 5020 Appliance via Fibre Channel

The NetBackup 5020 Appliance supports Fibre Channel connections for data traffic between storage pools and from a NetBackup media server. However, the NetBackup media server has to be running on a NetBackup 5200 or 5220 Appliance for this to work and be supported. Symantec should consider expanding support to non-appliance NetBackup media servers, the ability to connect to the NetBackup ...

discussion comment 1 hour 30 min ago

AravindKM commented on: Changed server from SEPM 11 to SEPM 12 * VM image

Wait for some more time. If still some clients are not reporting replace the sylink on those clients..

discussion comment 1 hour 32 min ago

tim_d_jordan commented on: storagefilewatch not updating watchfile

I only seem to see those entries for my mailarchive ones I do not see any for my filearchive store. Is it possible that there are just too many entries for this to deal with? Tim

discussion comment 1 hour 41 min ago

TonySterling commented on: EV 10 : Enterprise Vault Indexing Service problem

Take a look at this technote. There are loads of topics: Enterprise Vault 10.0 Indexing Key Topics Article: HOWTO58947 | Created: 2011-08-15 | Updated: 2012-02-03 | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO58947 This one should help you out: HOWTO65752 Demo: How to Manage ...

discussion comment 1 hour 46 min ago

Marc G commented on: SEPM12.1 Several issues ( liveupdate,client package export )

I'm having the same issue but on Win2k8 r2 sp1. latest from symantec is 2/3/2012 r3 and latest on manager is 2/2/2012 r18. The manager was later but after the server was restarted yesterday it got up to date but is now out of date again. I'm using a different policy for laptops to allow them to go out to the Symantec live updates site and download definitions and they ...