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

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our 2008r2 remote desktop server users lock up when the scans run.<br />
we found yesterday that we had defwatch scans enabled. &nbsp;they run for 8 hours and usually during production hours.<br />
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we disabled the defwatch scans on the remote desktop servers, but now i cannot find a way to stop the already running scans.
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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.

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on the clients or on the server?
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from whatever remote session you are seeing the issue.
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from whatever remote session you are seeing the issue.

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also you might what to read this article. I think it will help optimize performance on your environment<br />
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<a href="http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH180229" rel="ugc">http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH180229</a>
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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 [http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH180229]

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wound up having to do these steps:<br />
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection&gt;smc.exe -stop<br />
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection&gt;smc.exe -start<br />
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Thanks for the help
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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

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Need to know how to stop Symantec endpoint protection manager 12.1.5 stop running a scheduled client scan.<br />
windows 2008r2 client, windows 2012R2 server.
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Need to know how to stop Symantec endpoint protection manager 12.1.5 stop running a scheduled client scan.
windows 2008r2 client, windows 2012R2 server.

Symantec endpoint protection manager 12.1.5 stop running a scheduled client scan

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