This is how our network setup.
With the ePO server, we set it up to download the update every morning (at least 2 hours before the office start). Therefore every morning we have a latest update on our server.
With the client machines, you can setup a new task under Client Tast tab. In there you can specify the time you want the client machines to install the updates.
If your company leaves the machine on over night then you should set up to updates before the office hours start too.
All the best.
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by: IainNIXPosted on 2009-07-30 at 05:32:23ID: 24978954
i'm still on Pro Pilot, so i can't give you the exact steps to do the task setup on ePO4.0 (I'm sure some of the other experts will post). you should have a list of default tasks on the server config page, edit those to create the one that gets done by all the systems - i have 3 groups on my setup - Laptop, Workstations and Servers, and have policies for user systems and one for the servers.
however your updates should not be impacting on the users systems, unless they have missed a lot of updates, then your default policy would normally force an immediate update as soon as they login and this can take up to 10 mins to complete and does hog the LAN a bit.
as long as you have deployed the latest patch, in your case at least 7 or 8, and use the current scan engine 5301.4018, you updates should be invisible to the user. there is a hotfix (458640 i think) which sorts out the high memory usage issue, and keeps McAfee memory totals under 50MB or so.
i'm running the same package as you with Patch 8 and the Anti-spyware plug-in.