Guide Symantec Endpoint Protection Installation and ...

1 Symantec Endpoint Protection Installation and AdministrationGuide December 2020 RU1 Table of ContentsRelease 's new for Symantec Endpoint Protection RU2?..27 System requirements for Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) issues and workarounds for Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)..38 Supported virtual installations and virtualization Endpoint Protection release types and to get more 's new for all releases of Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 's new for Symantec Endpoint Protection RU1 's new for Symantec Endpoint Protection RU1?

2 58 What's new for Symantec Endpoint Protection MP1 ( )..63 What's new for Symantec Endpoint Protection 64 What is Symantec Endpoint Protection ?..66 How Symantec Endpoint Protection technologies protect your Endpoint Protection architecture 71 Symantec Endpoint Protection Quick Start Symantec Endpoint Protection Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager after 80 Installing Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager with a custom on to the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager or importing your Symantec Endpoint Protection product 86 Purchasing Symantec Endpoint Protection Symantec Endpoint Protection clients with Save the

3 Symantec Endpoint Protection client for authorizing system extensions for Symantec Endpoint Protection for macOS or 92 Managing kernel extension authorization when deploying the Symantec Endpoint Protection client the Symantec Agent for Linux or the Symantec Endpoint Protection client for 93 Getting started on the Linux auto-compile for the Symantec Endpoint Protection client for 96 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?

4 101 Communication ports for Symantec Endpoint 103 2 Installing and Uninstalling the Management Server and architecture choosing a database basic management server 107 About SQL Server configuration SQL Server database authentication Symantec Endpoint Protection the Symantec Endpoint Protection client Windows and Mac computers for remote 114 Choosing a method to install the client using the Client Deployment which security features to install on the 117 Managing client

5 Installation 117 Exporting client Installation client Installation packages into Symantec Endpoint Protection 119 Windows client Installation package and content update custom Windows client Installation packages in Symantec Endpoint Protection the Windows client Installation the client Installation existing security whether to download cloud-based or local-based definitions using the client Installation 124 Third-party security software removal in Endpoint Protection security software removal in Symantec Endpoint Protection RU1 and 125 Restarting the client computers from Symantec Endpoint Protection managed and unmanaged to get an unmanaged client Installation an unmanaged Windows 130 About uninstalling the Symantec Endpoint Protection 131 Uninstalling the Symantec Endpoint Protection client for 132 Uninstalling the Symantec Endpoint Protection client for the Symantec Agent for Linux or the Symantec Endpoint Protection client for 133

6 Upgrading and Migrating to the Latest Release of Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP).. 135 Upgrade best practices for Endpoint Protection 136 Supported and unsupported upgrade paths to the latest version of Symantec Endpoint Protection ..140 Increasing Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager available disk space before an a management practices for upgrading from the embedded database to the Microsoft SQL Server Express 143 Reducing the database size when the database is full before an upgrade to Microsoft SQL Server 145 Enabling FILESTREAM for the Microsoft SQL Server 3 Reducing 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

7 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 158 Preventing replication during an 159 Restoring which method to upgrade the client 160 Upgrading client software with AutoUpgrade settings to other Symantec Endpoint Protection RU2+ to a supported Endpoint Protection client patches on Windows the Symantec Linux the kernel modules for the Symantec Linux Group Update 168 Upgrade resources for Symantec Endpoint Symantec Endpoint the license status in Symantec Endpoint Protection up and recovering your license file (.)

8 Slf)..171 Purging obsolete clients from the database to make more licenses does a Symantec Endpoint Protection license cover?..172 About multi-year 173 Symantec Endpoint Protection product license an unmanaged Windows 174 Managing the client-server management servers and the server-client up HTTPS communications between a Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager and the port 176 Changing the HTTPS port for Apache for client 176 Enabling HTTPS client-server 177 Improving client and server 179 About server 180 Best practices for updating server certificates and maintaining the client-server the server

9 Certificate on the management server without breaking communications with the 182 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 186 Symantec Endpoint Protection client status 4 Using the policy serial number to check client-server policies and content on the client using push mode or pull does the client computer and the management server communicate?..190 How do I replace the client-server communications file on the client computer?

10 192 Restoring client-server communications with Communication Update Package the client-server communications file ( ) client-server communication settings into the Windows client-server communication settings into the Linux 195 IPv6 networking Groups, Clients, Administrators, and groups of you can structure a existing groups and computers from an Active Directory or an LDAP 199 About importing organizational units from the directory Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager to a directory to a directory server on a replicated 201 Importing organizational units from a directory a group's client computers from being added to 203 Moving a client computer to another client the Protection status of client Protection on the client for the clients