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McAffee EPO Encryption

we have a serious problem here: our EPO server has upgraded himself up to ver.7.1,but our clients (laptops) are running 6.x. this has lead,that no laptop has a connection to EPO server and boots with a critical error.
i was wondering,if anyone had a similar experience with that? wen have now 50 users who cannot work from "outside".mcaffee was not capable to react within 24 hrs.as a workaround, has only provided a boot CD to bring the OS up and running. means,each single user has to burn a CD or USB stick and recover the system on its own!

does anyone has experience with another encryption system which allows a rollback and allows decryption or at least an uninstall and reinstall of its encryption module so that people are at least able to work?
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Since no one answers, I will try, but I don't know the Software.

First of all, McAfee will need to feel some pressure before they move. I would retry to get through.
Then: please tell us what the server did for you. Did it influence the boot process (=unlock the drives pre-boot)? If so, this was always a single point of failure. You would of course be forced to create some recovery media/alternate boot media in advance - is that what McAfee proposed? A CD that provided the key for each workstation or is the CD meant to decrypt those in full?
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its the best solution.