Re: Laptop Administration

I just started a few weeks ago working for this school division. The current
policy install for Symantec and Windows update is to update from internal
servers. They want to control the Windows updates on all computers so they
are the same. For the Symantec, I wasn't aware of a setting that allowed
both mananged and unmanaged depending on location. At the last company I
worked for, I set all laptops to point to Symantec and do live-updates. This
worked effectively there, however, I lost the ability to admin. the Symantec
on those laptops from the server. This only works well in situations where
there are few laptops, or tech savy people using the laptops. What I need in
this situation is the ability to verify all updates from the server for
Symantec and Windows update.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

Chris Sprague wrote:
The problem is, left unchecked, a number of the laptop users do not
return to the network for one month or more. I work at a school
system and the teachers work on PP and other teaching tools at
home, show the PP presentation to their class, but never connect
the laptop to the network. There have been a couple of cases where
the virus definitions were not updated and the windows updates were
not done, and a virus was allowed to corrupt the laptop and then
hop onto the network when the user connected. If there was a
policy that I could create that would force the computer to be
hooked back into the domain at least once a week, it would help
reduce the risk to the laptops.

Why is your antivirus software on laptops setup so it can only get updates
from your server(s)?

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