Upgrade/Migration to SEP 11.0.6

[Migration User]

I am moving our organization to Symantec Endpoint Protection from Symantec Corporate AV v10.1.6. I have a new server to install the SEP manager and database. Will I be able to run SAV 10.1.6 and the new SEP 11.0.6 concurrently, which will allow me to uninstall the old AV clients, install the new SEP client and direct the new clients to the new server.

[Migration User]

Yes, you could do that.

[Chetan Savade]

Hi,

Yes you can run SAV 10.1. 6 and SEP 11 concurrently because SAV & SEP are two differnt products.

Same practice everyone follows while moving from SAV to SEP. So your all clients will remain protected.

I would like to suggest install latest SEP i.e 11.0.6 MP3 in your environment.

[Mithun Sanghavi]

 

Hello,

I have suggested the below Steps for Migration from SAV 10 To SEP 11 (Normally, Customers would like to Install SEPM on either the same Server where the Symantec System Center is Installed OR on Different server computer)

By following procedure, the SAV clients would get upgraded as per your requirements 1 after another and  in timely fashion. SSC will still remain up and running updating the remaining SAV clients and SEPM updating SEP clients respectively.

Here, we uninstall SSC only after all the SAV 10 clients have been migrated to SEP 11.

 

Steps:

1) Install Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager,

2) Create new SEP 11 packages for new Deploy on all the other machines.

3) Deploy the packages to all SAV 10 client machines, which will migrate all the clients to SEP (this could be done either with the help of "Migration and Deployment Wizard" OR "Find Unmanaged Computers"

Till the time the migration is over, the clients which haven't migrated from SAV 10 will communicate to Symantec System Center 10.

4) Once all the machines have been migrated from SAV 10 to SEP 11

(Except on the same server machine where the Symantec System Center 10 is installed, as SEP will not get installed till Symantec System Center 10, SCS 3.1 is uninstalled.),

5) Uninstall Symantec System Center 10, SCS 3.1 on the server

6) Install SEP on the same machine where the Symantec System Center 10 was uninstalled.

 

 

 

Symantec Knowledgebase Articles for Migration.

 

1) How To Migrate From Symantec Antivirus System Center Console To Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH106485

2) Obtaining an upgrade or update for Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.x or Symantec Network Access Control 11.x

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH103088

3) 'Installing and configuring Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 for the first time'

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH102397

4) Creating custom Client Installation packages in the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Console

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH102817

5) How to Deploy Symantec Endpoint Protection to your client computers using the Migration and Deployment Wizard.

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH102907

[Migration User]

Mithun Sanghavi

Thanks for the detailed advise. That should make this migration go pretty smoothly. I'll be moving forward with the migration over the next few days.