Kludgy is right, and having to keep some kind of additional record of what your policies are, and where they are applied and which is applied etc etc is a freakin' pain in the ocola (Hawaiian word). Thanks to Dave's suggestion to me a few months ago I keep a nice little (ha) Excel spreadsheet that does the trick.
I suppose there was a time many years ago when McAfee ePO was a good product, but McAfee has become a bloated piece of crapware that needs a major redesign to stay in business. Yup Dave, we definitely see eye to on this ;) On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > A double-hijacked thread...what's the record? > > ePO console 4.0 sucks a$$ compared to Trend and Vipre. You have a TON of > granularity yes, but it's not intuitive to say, pick a system and deploy > VirusScan to it. Easy to deploy the agent, a different method to ad-hoc the > VirusScan product to it. > > I picked up the Vipre and Trend consoles and was comfortable after about 30 > mins tops. ePO I am FINALLY comfortable with but it's a kludge. Have a > client task you like to move around in the tree - say you created it at the > desktops "folder" level and want it at the server... Nope sorry, can't do > that, got build a new one from scratch.. > > At least I know Sherry and I are eye to eye on this one :-). > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:52 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Mac Anti-Malware > > I have patched v4.0 a few times as well as built multiple servers from > scratch. Exported/imported policies, custom reports, exclusion lists, > etc, from one server to another. Even between domains. > > Fairly simple setup using a SQL database. I did hear that they decided > to just build a new v4 box, rather than upgrade, prior to me being here. > But, I believe that was because of old hardware. > > Having no prior experience using the software, I found it fairly easy to > pick up. > > Don Guyer > Systems Engineer - Information Services > Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group > 431 W. Lancaster Avenue > Devon, PA 19333 > Direct: (610) 993-3299 > Fax: (610) 650-5306 > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 3:06 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Mac Anti-Malware > > NO worries, I am sure we will find out the pain when we go which is > soon. > > Z > > Edward Ziots > Network Engineer > Lifespan Organization > MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + > [email protected] > Phone:401-639-3505 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:58 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Mac Anti-Malware > > Sorry, Z, our company was already at v4.0 when I started. > > Don Guyer > Systems Engineer - Information Services > Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group > 431 W. Lancaster Avenue > Devon, PA 19333 > Direct: (610) 993-3299 > Fax: (610) 650-5306 > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:52 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Mac Anti-Malware > > Any issues that you ran into moving from V3.6 to V4.0 Don, we are going > that way soon ourselves. > > Z > > Edward Ziots > Network Engineer > Lifespan Organization > MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + > [email protected] > Phone:401-639-3505 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:41 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Mac Anti-Malware > > We're on v4 and controlling clients through the management console is > slick. > > Don Guyer > Systems Engineer - Information Services > Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group > 431 W. Lancaster Avenue > Devon, PA 19333 > Direct: (610) 993-3299 > Fax: (610) 650-5306 > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Wright [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:36 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Mac Anti-Malware > > I didn't have any serious issues with ePO 3.6, and it provides very > granular control, but I think the layout is a convoluted and illogical > mess. > > > > Roger Wright > Network Administrator > Evatone, Inc. > 727.572.7076 x388 > _____ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:29 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Mac Anti-Malware > > > The latest version of ePO sux big time. > > What kind of issues are you seeing? We've been running it for quite a > while and granted, there have times where things have gotten buggy but > most of the time it's been okay. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 9:01 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Mac Anti-Malware > > Heck; the FIRST version of ePO sucked big time. LOL... That was when we > made > the switch to Trend when was it; around 2000 or so? Doesn't surprise me > that > it isn't any better... > Wish ESET did a MAC version. 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