Symantec ai packages silent install command

If creating auto install packages using Symantec ghost suite and want to push them out silent the command is install.exe /Aa /An That will install your exe without any client interaction. Still best to have them reboot when they can before using. /An tells it to not reboot. Of course change install.exe to your package name

Symantec Endpoint Outlook Addon Disabled

So after pushing out symantec a bunch of the servers constantly get this outlook addon disabled error. Checked all my settings from the management console but yet the error still appears after clicking the fix it button.. well found that even if its not checked in the management console, it may have been installed and is active..

found the following fixes but i just jumped straight to the last fix of opening add remove programs and change the install and remove the outlook addon.. basically the last step is what i used

click here for symantec article


• To disable the Outlook plug-in follow the below steps:
• To disable the plug-in from the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM):
1.Open the AntiVirus policy in SEPM.
2.Click on Microsoft Outlook Auto-Protect
3.Unselect Enable Microsoft Outlook Auto-Protect

• To disable the plug-in from within the Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) client interface:
1.Open up the SEP client UI (User Interface).
2.On the AV bar, click Options> Change Settings
3.Click on Outlook Auto-Protect
4.Unselect Enable Microsoft Outlook Auto-Protect

• To disable the plug-in from Outlook:
1.Open Outlook
2.Click Tools> Options
3.Select the Other tab
4.Click Advanced Options
5.Click Add-in Manager
6.Unselect the Symantec AntiVirus Outlook Protection and click OK

• To disable the plug-in from Outlook 2007:
1.Open Outlook 2007
2.Click Tools> Trust Center...
3.Select the Add-ins tab
4.On the Manage drop-down menu, select Exchange Client Extensions, then select Go...
5.Unselect the Symantec AntiVirus Outlook Protection and click OK
6.For best results, close and restart Outlook 2007.

• To uninstall the Outlook plug-in follow the below steps:


1.Click Start> Control Panel
2.Double-click Add or Remove Programs
3.Select Symantec Endpoint Protection
4.Click Change
5.When the installer appears, click Next
6.Select Modify and click Next
7.Open the AntiVirus Email Protection
8.Click on the Outlook Scanner and select the This feature will not be available option
9.Click Next and then Finish.


hope this helps others.. its really annoying though :/

excel files slow to load, hang, error or timeout

been getting lots of calls about excel files not opening or taking a very long time mostly over the network. well tracked it down to a windows update. Office File Validation addon. Once I removed this update from add remove programs the problem went away. A client said it took 6 minutes to open up one file, after removing the update it took 2 seconds to open same file..

also if you manually do updates i'd suggest hiding this update so it doesnt get reinstalled and cause problems in the future.. for a fast unistall of the addon at the cmd prompt run the following to remove the update

msiexec.exe /x {90140000-2005-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} /q

Furby is Back!!

Remember the Furby? Well Furby is back! Check them out by clicking below! Release date for the new Furby is set for September 16th!!

Symantec Liveupdate Pointing to Wrong Update Server

ok heres the deal. I had endpoint manager up and running but then decided to wipe out server and reload 2008 R2. Well all my managed clients still try to connect to the server for updates. Anyway enough blab. Here is what fixed this

goto:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\LiveUpdate

and delete all the settings.liveupdate files. also delete the lastgood liveupdate settings file. After doing this it know connects to liveupdate off the web. :)

adobe premiere pro preview choppy, lag, hangs, does nothing.

Well i got this new tiny camera and it imports to my computer as avi. When I opened them in premiere my previews didn't work for anything. well i found a fix for now. atleast it worked for me. trust me i tried alot.

open up adobe media encoder. i picked uncompressed avi file from one of the menus. once that was done, took like 28 mins, opened up premiere and dragged the video in and it now plays fine in preview.


by the way the camera is the vd80. mini dv video camera. well hope this helps anyone with same problem.

sysprep unable to change admin password

wds, mdt2010, windows xp

Using wds and lite touch i was getting the following error after syspreping my machines: setup was unable to change the password for user account administrator


Basically I built the image before hand and I had the admin password coded in the image. For some reason it didnt like this. I tried several ways and the only fix I found was to recreate my image without having an admin password. Basically i reset the password to blank..

From there after booting to lite touch and imaging, after it reboots it goes through with changing the admin password. I also have encrypted the password in my sysprep.inf. I read somewhere that encryption was causeing the error but tried both ways.


summary: create admin account with no password before sysprep.