This course provides hands-on training for those who are performing an upgrade of Symantec AntiVirus (SAV) Corporate Edition 9.x and 10.x and Symantec Client Security (SCS) 2.x and 3.x to Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP).

You will learn to plan for and install the management server, database, and the SEP clients. You also will learn how to deploy software to clients, how to add and migrate antivirus settings and firewall policies, and how these settings and policies are managed by the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) console.

What You'll Learn

• SEP and Symantec Network Access Control (SNAC) products and components
• Compare existing SAV and SCS servers and client groups and settings to SEP groups and policies
• Determine migration tasks
• Install the management server and SEPM console and administrative components
• Migrate legacy SAV servers and clients
• Install and configure Network Threat Protection
• Migrate your SCS firewall policies to SEP
• Monitor your new environment

Who Needs to Attend

Network managers, systems administrators, client security administrators, systems professionals, resellers and consultants who are upgrading to Symantec Endpoint Protection and charged with installing, configuring, and day-to-day management of Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 in a variety of network environments

Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition or Symantec Client Security
• Administrator-level knowledge of networking (including TCP/IP) and Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 operating systems

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

1. Getting to Know SEP Components

• SEP and SNAC products
• SEP components
• What is new for SAV/SCS administrators
• Determining supported SAV and SCS versions for migration
• SEP policy, group, inheritance, and location concepts

2. Preparing for Migration to SEP

• Correlating SAV/SCS servers, server groups, client groups, and clients to SEP groups
• Correlating SAV antivirus and LiveUpdate settings to SEP policies
• Determining which SAV settings are migrated
• Migration scenarios
• Performing pre-migration tasks

3. Installing the SEP

• Installing the management server
• Converting the SAV system hierarchy to the SEP group structure
• Protecting the management server
• Scheduling LiveUpdate for the management server
• Creating domains, administrators, and passwords

4. Migrating to SEP

• Migrating your computers from SAV/SCS to SEP
• Deploying software packages to computers
• Analyzing the migration results
• Performing post-migration tasks

5. Managing Groups, Policies, and Locations

• Scheduling LiveUpdate for clients
• Configuring Exceptions policies
• Scheduling on-demand scans
• Configuring a Proactive Protection Scan policy
• Modifying Antivirus and Antispyware protection policies

6. Managing Network Threat Protection

• Default firewall policies
• Creating custom firewall policies
• Managing Intrusion Prevention
• Deploying firewall policy and Intrusion Prevention policies
• Migrating SCS firewall policies

7. Monitoring the Environment

• Restricting access to specific groups
• Configuring the Home Page to respond to threats and risks
• Analyzing reports and logs