Thursday, October 29

Symantec Endpoint Protection Migration and Deployment Wizard SBS 2008

I was unable to use the Migration and Deployment wizard with SBS 2008. When I got to "Specify the name of a new group that you wish to deploy clients to" the wizard would go to "Loading" for a second and then return to the previous screen. The Built in Administrator account is disabled in SBS 2008 by default. There are to ways around this issue:

1) Enable the Built in Administrator account, log on, and run the Wizard from that account.

OR

2) Go to the Start Menu, Right click the command Prompt and Select "Run as Administrator"

Command Prompt:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
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C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protect
ion Manager\bin

C:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\bin>firstuse.bat

1 comments:

O said...

Thanks! I used the 2nd step. Good looking out.