NAVC 7.6 to Enterprise 9.0

[mswilson16]

Guys,

My company has just purchased Norton AntiVirus Enterprise Edition 9.0. I have never installed a corporate edition of AV, espically not with Exchange filtering and SMTP. I have a few people that are looking for me to fail on this so really need to make sure that I do a good job.

Can anyone show me some white papers, or websites, or just anything that will help me with my installation and use of 9.0.

I am assuming that I will have to go around each machine and un-install the current NAVC 7.6, then deploy the 9.0 from the server. I really dont have a clue with the SMTP and exchange area of it though.

Any advise will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Mswilson

 

[yubman]

Have you taken a look at Symantec's migration page?

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...tec AntiVirus Corporate Edition&ver=9.0&tpre=

NAV 7.6 to SAV 9.0 is listed as a "supported migration path", and says it's "seemless". yeah right...

I've done several upgrades, but usually only from a version behind (7.6 to 8.0,and 8.0 to 8.11) without much problems. Note, if your using the CEGETTER.bat to update virus defs daily, then that does change from 7.6 to 8.1 and above. You'll have to get the new ftp script and batch file from symantec's page.

Anyone else have any experience updateding to 9.0 from as far back as 7.6?

yubman

 

[mswilson16]

would you advise to try to upgrade or to do a fresh installation. I dont use the CEGETTER.bat method, but thanks for the tip.

 

[OUCATS]

Also, after installation I would configure the server so that the workstations CAN NOT uninstall Symantec (do this from the Symantec Console) and you may want to configure them so that they can not disable the real-time scan. This may help protect you from sabotage if folks are looking for you to fail. Another plus is that you can configure the server to check with Symantec every xx minutes to see if an update is available using a script. We've got 8.0 (about to upgrade to 9) and I have been very happy with it (especially the ability for it to be centrally managed).