Re: Centrally managed antivirus

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Correct on the laptops going directly to Symantec.  That is one thing I like
better about Symantec Endpoint Protection over the old Symantec AV
Corporate.  The old AV Corporate did not do that.


On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Tom Jedrzejewicz
<tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Lukas Beeler
> <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > When you speak of administering via Group Policy, this means the
> PCs/servers
> > > must be joined to the domain, correct?
> ...
> > >  Our sales reps laptops have never
> > > been joined to the domain.  Those laptops will soon be Win7 Home Premium
> > > which I don't think _can_ be joined to a domain.  In any case, as long
> as
> > > there is a central admin server, there's a way around that.
>
> I have never much cared for Symantec.
>
> I would not worry about the domain/GPO issues, because Forefront will
> be no more headache than the current solution.  I imagine that all
> software on the remote computers is configured manually and the A/V is
> configured to go directly to Symantec anyway.
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