Symantec endpoint protection manager 12.1.5 stop running a scheduled client scan

when the scheduled scan starts do you see the progress bar? you could stop it from there if the Symantec policies allows this.
Why are you trying to do this?

our 2008r2 remote desktop server users lock up when the scans run.
we found yesterday that we had defwatch scans enabled.  they run for 8 hours and usually during production hours.

we disabled the defwatch scans on the remote desktop servers, but now i cannot find a way to stop the already running scans.

on the clients or on the server?

from whatever remote session you are seeing the issue.

also you might what to read this article. I think it will help optimize performance on your environment

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH180229

wound up having to do these steps:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection>smc.exe -stop

C:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection>smc.exe -start

Thanks for the help