Our IT director has tasked me with testing out the Symantec Endpoint Security trial so that we can move away from our current Kaspersky management system. I've downloaded the trial (which installs the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager) and installed it on our server. The first thing I wanted to test was creating a deployment package so we can push out installations to end users from the server but I'm running into a problem. A couple steps in it prompts to "select the computers to receive the client installation package" and pulls up a list of computers, but only for that physical site (it seems to be populating the list like it's pulling from Active Directory but I could be wrong. It's definitely missing a good 80% of the computers on our entire network though).
First, what exactly is this trying to ask me to do? I want to create the package on the server and be able to push to any computer that it picks up on the network. Do I select the server, or do I need to select every single computer that populates on this step?
Secondly, when trying to search by IP range, the search continues for hours (it still hasn't finished)...and I'm only searching between 10.195.1.1 and 10.195.255.255. Our Kaspersky can sniff the entire network on 2hr intervals and the sniff only takes about 30 minutes (and this includes ranges outside those previously listed like our 192.X.X.X and users connecting to our domains from home). Any reason the network scan is so slow for Symantec or is there something I'm not noticing here?
