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Backup and Archiving Community

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Information Anesthetic: Taking the Pain out of Backup

Simon Jelley

Symantec Employee

It seems like businesses are looking at modernizing backup like it’s a trip to the dentist: too time-consuming and painful, and always costly! So they end up taking shortcuts, hoping that the cavity of data loss will never occur. But just as advances in dental techniques have taken much of the...

Posted: 05 Feb 2012

Endpoint Management Community

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How To Install Symantec Management Platform 7.1

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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 | 21 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 17 min ago

Amaan commented on: Change the media ID barcode

Hi, I agree with all bove said as i learned same issue from them :) https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/tape-media-id You can find attached document where i put detailed steps to fix this issue. and maybe our experts will also verify if it is correctly written. :)

discussion comment 20 min ago

Stuart Green commented on: Moving from 7.0 to 7.1

NBSU is a good tool to 'document' the setup/config of the important files in a Netbackup environment. But cannot be imported. The catalog recovery procedure can be used to transfer a lot of the NBU configuration, policies etc between like for like ...

discussion comment 20 min ago

Shiva S commented on: Information required

These sites are been tracked through our network monitoring fucntion. And the SEP version is a combination of RU6 & RU7.

new known issue 20 min ago

DevG posted: NDMP backup job fails during verify stage with error E_PVL_UNENCRYPTED_DATA_ENCOUNTERED_WHILE_DECRYPTING ((BESTATUS)0xE0008122L) when Hardware Encryption is enabled

Non-data threatening / major functionality Private fix ready 180951 NDMP backup job fails during verify when Hardware Encryption is enabled. When NDMP backup job is run with Hardware ...

new discussion 22 min ago

Aaron123 posted: Is it possible to manually copy access utility?

I need a solution Hi, I don't want the access utility to be copied to all removable storage. However when I burn discs I want it to copy. Is it possible to manually copy the utility when burning? So far I haven't had any luck because the access utility files get encrypted as well. Anybody have a workaround for ...

discussion comment 22 min ago

muhammd kamran commented on: Symantec PGP Universal Server

broooo!!!!! we have to site let suppose primary site and Factory site that was i called (remote site) between both site they dont have any conectivity and i was only deploy Universal on primary site and i am asking you is there any possibility to deploy manage client packages on remote site.

idea comment 23 min ago

JH-Analyst commented on: Add ability to view health of Collection Hosts and/or Agents in Statistics

Unfortunately we are using 4.64 and do not have those rules at our disposal, nor do we have the X NOT followed by Y template. Perhaps when an upgrade is undertaken, but until then we are without a method.

discussion comment 24 min ago

pete_4u2002 commented on: Exclusion using file fingerprint

ADC is used application and device control, it has nothing to do with scan exception.

discussion comment 26 min ago

mclemson commented on: Licensing count and actual behavior

You should uninstall the Monitor Solution Plug-in until the total installed count is at or below what you own. This is the only reliable method of confirming that the installed base will have a license. Does this answer your question?