Administration Guide Symantec Endpoint Protection 14.3 …

1 Symantec Endpoint Protection RU3 installation andAdministration Guide September 2021 RU3 Table of ContentsRelease 's new for Symantec Endpoint Protection RU3?..17 System requirements for Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) issues and workarounds for Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)..27 Supported virtual installations and virtualization Endpoint Protection release types and to get more 37 What is Symantec Endpoint Protection ?.. 38 How Symantec Endpoint Protection technologies protect your 38 Symantec Endpoint Protection architecture 44 Installing Symantec Endpoint Protection Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager after 49 Installing Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager with a custom on to the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager 52 Activating or importing your Symantec Endpoint Protection product 55 Purchasing Symantec Endpoint Protection Symantec Endpoint Protection clients with Save the Symantec Endpoint Protection client for authorizing system extensions for Symantec Endpoint

2 Protection for macOS or 62 Managing kernel extension authorization when deploying the Symantec Endpoint Protection client the Symantec Linux Agent or the Symantec Endpoint Protection client for started on the Linux auto-compile for the Symantec Endpoint Protection client for 67 About the Linux client graphical user Symantec Endpoint Protection clients with Remote Symantec Endpoint Protection clients with Web Link and do I do after I install the management server?.. 71 Communication ports for Symantec Endpoint 73 Installing and Uninstalling the Management Server and architecture choosing a database 78 About basic management server 78 About SQL Server configuration SQL Server database authentication 2 Internationalization Symantec Endpoint Protection 84 Managing the Symantec Endpoint Protection client Windows and Mac computers for remote 85 Choosing a method to install the client using the Client Deployment which security features to install on the 88 Managing client installation 89 Exporting client installation

3 Client installation packages into Symantec Endpoint Protection 91 Windows client installation package and content update custom Windows client installation packages in Symantec Endpoint Protection the Windows client installation 94 Customizing the client installation existing security whether to download cloud-based or local-based definitions using the client installation 96 Third-party security software removal in Endpoint Protection security software removal in Symantec Endpoint Protection RU1 and the client computers from Symantec Endpoint Protection managed and unmanaged to get an unmanaged client installation an unmanaged Windows 103 About uninstalling the Symantec Endpoint Protection 104 Uninstalling the Symantec Endpoint Protection client for 105 Uninstalling the Symantec Endpoint Protection client for the Symantec Linux Agent or the Symantec Endpoint Protection client for 106 Upgrading and Migrating to the Latest Release of Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP).

4 108 Upgrade best practices for Endpoint Protection 109 Supported and unsupported upgrade paths to the latest version of Symantec Endpoint Protection Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager available disk space before an a management practices for upgrading from the embedded database to the Microsoft SQL Server Express 117 Reducing the database size when the database is full before an upgrade to Microsoft SQL Server 118 Enabling FILESTREAM for the Microsoft SQL Server the database size to less than 10 GB before an upgrade to Microsoft SQL Server more disk space available to upgrade to the default Microsoft SQL Server Express encrypted communication between Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager and Microsoft an environment that uses multiple embedded databases and management and starting the management server 132 Preventing replication during an 133 3 Restoring which method to upgrade the client 134 Upgrading client software with AutoUpgrade settings to other client software with the Client Upgrade Symantec Endpoint Protection RU2+ to a supported 141 Installing Endpoint Protection client patches on Windows the

5 Symantec Linux the kernel modules for the Symantec Linux Group Update 145 Upgrade resources for Symantec Endpoint Symantec Endpoint the license status in Symantec Endpoint Protection up and recovering your license file (.slf).. 148 Purging obsolete clients from the database to make more licenses does a Symantec Endpoint Protection license cover?..149 About multi-year 150 Symantec Endpoint Protection product license 151 Licensing an unmanaged Windows 151 Managing the client-server management servers and the server-client up HTTPS communications between a Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager and the port 154 Changing the HTTPS port for Apache for client 154 Enabling HTTPS client-server 155 Improving client and server 157 About server 158 Accepting the self-signed server certificate for Symantec Endpoint Protection 159 Best practices for updating server certificates and maintaining the client-server

6 The server certificate on the management server without breaking communications with 160 Updating or restoring a server Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager after changing the computer's IP address and whether the client is connected to the management server and is 165 Symantec Endpoint Protection client status the policy serial number to check client-server policies and content on the client using push mode or pull 167 How does the client computer and the management server communicate?.. 169 How do I replace the client-server communications file on the client computer?

7 171 4 Restoring client-server communications with Communication Update Package the client-server communications file ( ) client-server communication settings into the Windows 174 Importing client-server communication settings into the Linux 174 IPv6 networking 175 Managing Groups, Clients, Administrators, and groups of 176 How you can structure a existing groups and computers from an Active Directory or an LDAP 178 About importing organizational units from the directory Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager to a directory to a directory server on a replicated 180 Importing organizational units from a directory a group's client computers from being added to 182 Moving a client computer to another client the Protection status of client Protection on the client for the clients that do not have the client software 186 Searching for information about

8 Client are the commands that you can run on client computers?.. 187 Running commands on client computers from the 189 Ensuring that a client does not 190 Switching a Windows client between user mode and computer a client to detect unmanaged 191 Password-protecting the Symantec Endpoint Protection and allowing users to change the client's user 193 Collecting user 194 Checking on your Mac client using AppleScript 194 Managing your Linux client using the command line tool (sav).. 196 Managing remote locations for remote location awareness for a a location to a 200 Changing a default up Scenario One location awareness up Scenario Two location awareness 203 Configuring communication settings for a 5 About strengthening your security policies for remote practices for Firewall policy settings for remote 206 About turning on notifications for remote monitoring remote clients from the management 207 Monitoring roaming Symantec Endpoint Protection clients from the cloud administrator administrator accounts and access an

9 Administrator account and setting access the authentication method for administrator 212 Using RSA SecurID authentication with Symantec Endpoint Protection 213 Configuring two-factor authentication with Symantec Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager to authenticate administrators who log on with directory server authentication for an administrator 217 Changing the password for an administrator account or the default a forgotten Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager the Forgot your password link so that administrators can reset lost Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager logon passwords to never 223 Displaying a message for administrators to see before logging on to the Symantec Endpoint Protection 223 Displaying the Remember my user name and Remember my password check boxes on the logon or blocking access to remote Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager 224 Unlocking an administrator's account after too many logon the timeout period for stayi