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Backup and Archiving Community

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Backup and Archiving Community Changes

Swathi Turlapaty

Admin

We ‘re happy to announce that, based on numerous requests, user feedback, and research, we are in the process of splitting the Backup and Archiving community into two communities to best support our users needs. The Backup Exec and NetBackup families will continue to share a common space in th...

Posted: 25 Jan 2012

Endpoint Management Community

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How To Install Symantec Management Platform 7.1

ziggy

1. Summary This article details the steps I took to install the Symantec Management Platform (SMP) 7.1 on a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 VM, with 8 CPU's, and 16GB Ram. These steps worked flawlessly for me, but should be reviewed with your architect first to ensure th...

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | 12 comments

Endpoint Virtualization Community

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Virtualized Internet Explorer 6 for Windows 7

karl_bunnell

Symantec Employee

Adoption to Windows 7 is accelerating and migrations from prior versions of Windows to Windows 7 are really starting to pick up steam. One significant impediment to migrating to Windows 7 is the lack of native support for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) on Windows 7. Many enterprises still rely on interna...

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 | 65 comments

Storage and Clustering Community

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Using Symantec FileStore in VDI Deployments

Ruchi Goyal

Symantec Employee

In this video, Product Manager Ruchi Goyal, discusses the implementation challenges of desktop virtualization and how Symantec FileStore addresses those challenges to provide the best VMDK storage farm solution. Resources: White paper:Scale-Out Storage Optimized for VMware Virtual Desktop Infra...

Posted: 09 Jan 2012

Security Community

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A Reminder about Rootkits

John H

Symantec Employee

Rootkit stories show up in the mainstream media on a regular basis these days. While these stories raise public awareness about what the bad guys are doing, they usually leave readers wondering what they can do to protect themselves from silent threats infecting their computers at home and i...

Posted: 18 Jan 2012

Inside Symantec Community

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Better Backup For All

Deepak Mohan

Symantec Employee

Explosive information growth is not new news for organizations anymore – it is becoming the norm. The incredible strain this growth puts on infrastructures designed to manage and protect it has been a growing concern for years, though much more accelerated in recent times as virtualiza...

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | 6 comments

Vision User Conference Community

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DISCOVER THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE

LeslieMiller

Admin

What powers your IT career? If the answer includes deep technical knowledge, up-close access to experts, and productive connections with your peers, you won’t want to miss Symantec Vision 2012. Join us this year for even more hands-on labs, technical breakouts, in-depth training, and one-on-on...

Posted: 14 Jan 2012

Partners Community

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Symantec Channel Marketing Update- December 2011

Tricia Atchison

Symantec Employee

As we close out the 2011 business year, I wanted to give a North America Channel Marketing Update. It’s been an exciting year for us as we had several solutions launches such as SEP 12, DLP and SAMG. If you have not had the opportunity to see the latest and greatest updates, please...

Posted: 19 Dec 2011

Developers Community

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Validation and ID Protection Service (VIP) Developer Test Drive

Kimberley

Admin

The Symantec™ Validation and ID Protection Service (VIP) Developer Center provides free APIs and implementation documentation for a pilot test environment. By using the Symantec VIP APIs, you can evaluate, test, and integrate VIP two-factor authentication into your own online applications. Va...

Posted: 29 Jun 2011

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discussion comment 33 min ago

pete_4u2002 commented on: License

The error means that our service is not started, either becuase you installed as Console Only, or becuase Exchange isn't started.

discussion comment 33 min ago

pkh commented on: Backup jobs hang when spanning tapes.

You can do that, but very soon you would run out of slots in your library. You should set your OPP to a reasonable period so that your tapes can overwritten when the data are no longer required.

new discussion 36 min ago

Shailendra Pal posted: SNAC Configuration in SEPM server 12.x

I need a solution Hi , i have a issue in SEPM 12.x SNAC configuration when i assign the group for snac policy i got a errore message , i mentioned below............ ...........You cannot assign this Host Integrity policy to any group or location because there are no valid Host Integrity templates available. ...

article comment 1 hour 7 min ago

Avkash K commented on: Benefits of Integrating SEP with SSIM

Info regarding Viruses will directly updated through GIN only. If you have your existing GIN license then you don't any additoinal license for this.

article comment 1 hour 9 min ago

Avkash K commented on: Restoring event archives

Thanks Thumar!!

discussion comment 1 hour 14 min ago

Pawan K Yadav commented on: Symantec network Access Control

Yes, SNAC check 3rd party AV and def. updates........

article comment 1 hour 14 min ago

Avkash K commented on: Oracle 11gR2 Integration with SSIM (DB Activity)

For older versions also procedure is same. except you don't need to install XML DB for older versions.