Wow, thanks for the input. It's great to hear that deployment isn't a big deal; I assume that management is fairly straight forward? Would you mind if I ask what the rough cost was for the 175 node network?
There is one thing that I haven't looked into, and that's uninstalling Symantec and then installing the new product. Anyone have any input on that sucker? Thanks again so much! -Marty From: Roger Wright [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Moving away from Symantec, how 'bout Microsoft Forefront? Is there a better database options? Good move getting away from Symantec security. We've just made the move from MS Forefront to VIPRE Enterprise. FF was okay (we still got hit with the rogue av products and other stuff) but far more difficult to manage and deploy the VIPRE. I've installed VIPRE on 12, 175 & 250 node networks will little effort. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Marty Nelson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Greetings and salutations everyone! Let me apologize in advance for such a long e-mail, I didn't intend for it to go on and on and on...x Here's the deal. Our Symantec agreement is up for renewal here in a little bit and we are looking at possible alternatives. One package that I am particularly interested in is Microsoft's Forefront. Normally I would cringe at buying something like this from Microsoft, but after my experience with Security Essentials (which has been GREAT BTW); I thought that looking at their enterprise solution may not be a bad idea so I wanted to see what everyone here thinks. The one thing I haven't yet figured out (as I'm not a great DB man) is that they sell Forefront with MS SQL (locked down so it only works with Forefront, at least that's how I read it) or without it. Now the way they phrase things indicates that MS SQL is needed in one way or another, and I was wondering if that was really true. Is it possible to use and open source database? Is anyone here running Forefront? Is so, what's your database solution? And if not MS's Forefront, then where else should I be looking? I know a while back EOD32 was a favorite, is that still the case? We've been stuck with Symantec for ~10 years now and with the bloat and stability of their programs I would really like to get away from them if there's a viable alternative out there. Thanks so much, -Marty Nelson ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
