I'm getting myself psyched up to load "vpstart /install" on my 5.1
server with Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 8.1. Just wondering
if
anyone has encountered any problems with this mix. I'm wondering if I

should do this after hours just in case.

Thanks,
George Crossland
Network Administrator
Autry Museum of Western Heritage

george,

> I'm getting myself psyched up to load "vpstart /install" on my 5.1
> server with Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 8.1. Just
wondering if
> anyone has encountered any problems with this mix. I'm wondering if
I
> should do this after hours just in case.
>
installed it on 1 testserver. no problems so far. this was an install,
no
upgrade. went flawlessly and did not require a reboot

Sounds good. After reading through the manual, I haven't seen how the

server virus signature updates are supposed to happen. How do you
receive and apply these?

Thanks,
George

PetervdM wrote:
> george,
>
>
>>I'm getting myself psyched up to load "vpstart /install" on my 5.1
>>server with Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 8.1. Just
wondering if
>>anyone has encountered any problems with this mix. I'm wondering if
I
>>should do this after hours just in case.
>>
>
> installed it on 1 testserver. no problems so far. this was an
install, no
> upgrade. went flawlessly and did not require a reboot
>
>

george,

> Sounds good. After reading through the manual, I haven't seen how
the
> server virus signature updates are supposed to happen. How do you
> receive and apply these?
>
we employ a w2k based 'master server', which retrieves the updates for
the
server group from symantec by means of liveupdate. when we initially
started
way back with 7.5ce, having a novell server doing these updates was
not
stable. we have no intentions of switching that back.

so you have 2 poosibilities, depending on the number of servers:

- let the nw server do the updating for the group ( even if it is 1
server )
- let a windows based server do the update. for the latter you have to

install ssc on that system.