Firewall in between, as well as a different switching matrix. Regards,
Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection and Exclusions Isolated in what way? Just a separate subnet, or on a separate subnet with a firewall (or router with ACLs)? Or something more than that? On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 06:17, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com> wrote: > I’ve got several clients whose server farm is isolated from their user > desktops and therefore chose to not run standard AV. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9:15 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection and Exclusions > > > > There's not many server-end systems that don't need exclusions. On XenApp, > without a particular set of them you can't get EdgeSight working > effectively, either - and if you use AppSense agents, you need to configure > another particular set of exclusions, even on client endpoints. > > The days of the reactive AV are coming to an end, I think. Application > management stops more threats for us these days than traditional AV ever > does. I'm tempted to run a few systems without standard AV, but my current > emplyer won't let me take the risk, even for an experiment :-) > > On 24 August 2011 14:07, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com> wrote: > > BTW #3, not entering exclusions in an A/V product running on an Exchange > Server can also really foul up the works. > > > > BTW #4, not entering exclusions in an A/V product running on a SQL Server > can also really foul up the works. > > > > And your other comment is spot on! J > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9:01 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection and Exclusions > > > > Tried that. Gave up. Found some posts saying in the managed version of SEP > that there is no way to export the exclusion stuff. This customer had > decided on the unmanaged version of SEP 12.1. Decisions like that make me > glad I charge by the hour! J I wound up just manually entering the > exclusions on all six Citrix XenApp servers. > > > > BTW #1, not entering exclusions in an A/V product running on a XenApp server > can really screw things up. They installed SEP 12.1 on all XenApp servers > over the weekend and didn’t tell me they were even planning on such a > thing. Monday morning all you know what broke loose when users were getting > corrupted profile, couldn’t log off and sessions would never terminate and > their main accounting app’s executable kept being blocked so no one could do > any accounting work. 12 man-hours later they were back running. > > > > BTW #2, not entering exclusions in an A/V product running on a Domain > Controller can also really foul up the works. > > > > ID10T issues like this keep MBS and me in business. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Carl Webster > > Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional > > http://www.CarlWebster.com > > > > > > From: Pete Howard [mailto:pchow...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 7:51 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection and Exclusions > > > > You may have access to the key but not Regedit perms. Try importing from an > elevated cmd prompt ? > > Sent from my iPad > > On Aug 23, 2011, at 11:58 PM, Webster <webs...@carlwebster.com> wrote: > > My GoogleFu is failing me. Is there a way to copy the Exclusions from one > computer to another? I found the registry key: > > > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint > Protection\AV\Exclusions] > > > > I exported it but when I try to import the .reg file, I get an access > denied. I gave my account FC permission to the key but still a no-go. 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