Re: Adding Server with Corporate: Standard on all PCs too?

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 11/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:13:08 -0500

In news:1132145145.735012.268320@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com,
googlespam@doreenbird.co.uk <googlespam@doreenbird.co.uk> typed:
> I am helping at a small charity where the PCs generally have AVG on
> them, which probably updates automatically (although there are so many
> problems in the IT setup, who knows ...) but I want to add a server to
> their network, and in many ways start from scratch.
>
> For this I need something that can run on a server, and I've got
> Symantec Corporate Edition for a minimum of ten users from Civica for
> £117.
>
> My inclination is to remove all antivirus and security stuff from the
> PCs and just use Symantec Corporate for everything, to match the
> server. But there may be resistance to this.
>
> What would be the implications of running or not running the same
> version on all machines? Is there a way of centralising the updates,
> to save on downloads? (In Norton Corporate 7.0 I know that pushing
> out the updates from the server just didn't work in my previous
> workplace and I had to download the intelligent updater file and run
> it via login scripts.)

>From an admin standpoint, having everything centralized & consistent makes a
lot of sense. And you should indeed make sure that updates are pushed from
the server, that clients can't unload the software, that scheduled scans are
automatic, etc....I personally don't have a lot of experience with NAVCE but
I know a lot of people like it, and I do have it running in one office with
updates pushed out automatically from the server, and it works fine. Can't
say what problems you may run into if the PCs aren't in good working shape
as is.

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