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An IT vendor (SYMC) providing many products like Symantec Endpoint Protection and Backup Exec.

Symantec is a large Information Technology vendor of products like Symantec Endpoint Protection and Backup Exec. Official company website is http://www.symantec.com/

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Should I install an AV product on my domain controllers?

Should I run a server-specific antivirus, regular antivirus, or no antivirus at all on my servers, particularly my Domain Controllers? Here's some background about why I'm asking this question: I've never questioned that antivirus software should…
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So what do we use instead of PartitionMagic now that Symantec's killed it?

Apparently, since the last time I had to do a lot of playing with partitions and images, Symantec acquired, neglected, and killed off PartitionMagic. (Yeah, it's been a while.) What, then, are we meant to use instead, that gives us that general…
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Symantec Backup Exec 12 Tape Alert

Every day, I run 5 backups using 6 tapes. Each day, when I run the inventory, I get a tape alert Error. This occurs every day, on the same job. The error is: Job 'Inventory Daily ************' has reported Multiple Tape Alerts on server…
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Automated tool to remove symantec AV

I need a tool to automatically remove Symantec AV (~v10.0) from desktops when the uninstall password is not known or the install is corrupt. I know some AV products will do this for you if they can (Trend sometimes) but in other cases it would be…
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Should I upgrade to Symantec Endpoint Protection?

I'm the IT manager at an animal shelter in Upstate New York. We have a Windows network with about 50 desktops running Windows XP Pro. We used to use CA eTrust Antivirus, but that product didn't work too well (too many infections got through). …
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Backup Exec 2014 Insert Over writable Media into the robotic library

We have Backup exec 2014 along with IBM TS3100 Tape Library. I have made partitions defined (one for each day of the week) and all of my jobs run fine. From few weeks we are getting 'Inset overwriteable media into the robotic library' errors very…
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Interpreting WPR traces in trying to better network throughput

In trying to analyze a 3thparty application's throughput we have collected a WPR trace on two systems. One has Symantecs Intrusion Detection System enabled, the other one has not. Following observations for the system with Intrusion Detection System…
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How to recover Symantec Backup Exec backup via Linux?

I have a tape backup from a defunct server that was created via Symantec Backup Exec version 10.1.5629 on Windows. Is it possible to extract the backup from this using some standard or open source tools on Linux rather than resorting to a copy of…
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Running SEP scans with the SYSTEM account

I need to run Symantec Endpoint Protection scans on Windows 7 systems using the SYSTEM account. I know that I can run DoScan.exe to manually run a scan, and this works fine using a regular user account. Unfortunately, when I try to run DoScan as…
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Symantec BE: How is data flow of backups/restore to storage pools?

I am evaluating Symantec's BackupExec 2012 and was wondering how does the backup data flow from the server that as being backed up to the storage pool. E.g. My BE server is in city A, the server that I am backing up is in city B and the storage pool…
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Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business disabling Windows 2008 R2 Firewall, how do I stop this?

We have SEP 12.1 RU1 Small Business Edition and we're deploying to Windows 2008 R2 machines. It seems that SEP is disabling the native firewall. Has anyone seen this? Specifically, The SEP Firewall policy on the management server does not have the…
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Backup Exec 12.5 runs until another tape is inserted

Any ideas why Backup Exec 12.5 would keep a job in the "running" state until a new tape is inserted (when it doesn't need to write anything to the new tape)? We've got an LTO-3 drive (400/800GB), backing up 80GB of data. The backup starts at 11PM…
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Symantec Messaging Gateway brightmail

our Symantec Messaging Gateway birghtmail broke yesterday, the issue no one can login into the script I'm just a normal tech at medium clinic, our system administrator rank quit the job, and now everybody is looking at me to fix it. I do have minor…
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Using NDMP Device as Storage in Symantec Backup Exec 2012

In our backup system, a group of servers are being backed up using Symantec Backup Exec 2012 to HP Disk Cartridges. We use HP Ultrium 5-SCSI as the disk drive, and HP 1x8 G2 Autoloader to load the disk cartridges. Sometimes, the writing speed…
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Symantec Enpoint Protection blocking mapped printer install

We're having a strange issue with Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) version 12.1 on Windows 7 clients. When our users try to map a new network printer from our print server (double-click on the printer name when browsing \OurPrintServer ) - the…
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