How many clients?!

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote:

> I should add that Sunbelt's Vipre was in the running but Microsoft killed
> them with the price but then we had SQL in house and did not need to add
> that license cost to the pricing.  To get the most out of Vipre I would have
> needed the SQL or similar as well just the base install would not have
> needed the full license.
>
> Jon
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>  On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>  I am getting use to ForeFront seems okay.  Only issue is requirement for
>> a full SQL license.  If you are running SCE or any other System Center
>> product other than MOM it is "more of a challenge" to get it up and
>> running.  I used NOD before this.  That was a good product but a PITA to
>> make configuration changes the documentation was the pits and when you
>> change the server version you had the change the client version, with the
>> reverse being true as well.  I have also used Symantec up to version 10.x
>> and would not go back to that product.  Management was horrible with
>> patching of the client requiring a full un-install and re-install or if you
>> got lucky just a full over the top install.  My failure rate for getting
>> patches deployed as about 25%.  Meaning 25% of the machines had to be
>> rebuilt after each patch event.  It also did not catch all the viruses/virii
>> on a File Server which really got me upset.
>>
>> I will be testing Sterling during the summer and hope to get the best of
>> both SCE and ForeFront with only one or maybe two management interfaces to
>> deal with.
>>
>> Jon
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>>  On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Robert Jackson 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
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>>>  I kinda guess that this topic has been thrashed on a number of
>>> occasions......
>>> We've got our anti virus renewal coming up and it may be an opportunity
>>> to
>>> change to something else.
>>>
>>> Currently we use McAfee (Enterprise version therefore Groupshield, end
>>> point
>>> protection, ePO etc). However the renewal costs are quite expensive.
>>>
>>> Really wondering what you guys use in an Enterprise environment that is
>>> better more cost effective than McAfee with good central management
>>> features etc. Basically the equivalent of what we currently have.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rab.
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