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Updating SAV on Hosts That Are Hardly on My Network
Some members of our Sales team hardly stay long enough in the office to pick up SAV (antivirus) updates from our servers. Is there a way to force such updates to occur once the affected machines connect to the Internet by any means?
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Ok. Is there a way to configure the clients to pick up from either server or the Internet, based on which is available?
This will depend on what AV you have we use Norton, it is possible to point the client straight to the internet, this is also set on the server. You make a group then assign it an update path to the internet.
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We run SAV (Symantec)
Well look for the update source on the server admin properties, LiveUpdate properties, copy it and use it for the group you will create for the Sales personel, look all also for the frequency updates are retrieved and adjust it to your needs.
I would make those Non Managed clients, in which they will update staight from the web.....
ASKER
Ok. So it seems that we can only choose 1 out of 2 options; either configure the clients to update from our domain SAV managers or from the Internet.
I believe that is accurate.....
Or setup a Parent server in the DMZ perhaps? Not a Network specialist, but maybe an option?
Or setup a Parent server in the DMZ perhaps? Not a Network specialist, but maybe an option?
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After several weeks, this solution has taken care of our needs to update computers which hardly get on the local network.
So if one Laptop was away for two days or more as soon as they connect to the network, they update.
So far I have not seen a way of updating straight to the internet, by passing the server - I was able once to update one laptop manually by downloading the virus partens from the site, then install it.