Endpoint is not the end of your network
Folks who know me know I have been a Symantec AV guy for a long time, note I did not say a Norton AV, I said Symantec, there is a huge difference in the products. I know they’re made by the same company, but one is made for the consumer market and has to run on it’s own and one is built for the commercial market where there is actually someone in charge of IT and capable (we hope) of maintaining the network. When Symantec released Endpoint, I was annoyed that they stopped selling the standalone Symantec Antivirus program. Why do AV vendors think we want everything bundled? However after using it for a while, I was able to figure out how to disable all the extra stuff it does. One of the problems with the original release is it stops shares from working on SBS, but there is a fix for this READ ABOUT IT HERE. Beleive it or not this was not the biggest problem, the original release (at least on SBS) had a database that just kept growing. The default install goes to %program files% on the system drive, I found this out when my server stopped cold because it ran out of room. So if you are running a build ealier than 11.0.1000.1375 run don’t walk to the download center and get a newer build. Don’t wait until your server crashes. The newer build is much more well behaved. The database that killed my server was 12+ GB (it grew that big in 10 days) the new buld has been running a couple of weeks now and it is maintaining at a nice reasonable size of 115 Mb. If you are installing SEP (Symantec EndPoint) on SBS make sure to READ THIS FIRST.