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Changing Antivirus for Corporatre Network

Hi Experts ,

I would like to ask you for the best Practice Plan (General)  to remove Existing Antivirus with A new Vendor ... in terms of security , clean uninstallation for existing AV and smooth installation for the new AV  ...  Considering this process for both Servers side and Clients side.

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How many workstations?

I would go this way for as many as I could manage in a day.

1. Get the new AV on hand.
2. Uninstall the workstation AV using the Server tool for this purpose.
3. Uninstall the Server AV.
4. Install the new AV
5. Deploy it to workstations.
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  • Deploy AVs with latest definitions as part of installation
  • After removing current AV devices are unprotected, new AV must be deployed ASAP
  • Ensure client AVs can get updates from AV server so that it stays up-to-date
I had a slightly different order because some AntiVirus packages conflict and A must be removed before B (which makes it messy)
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500 PCs ,, considering that we have clients (servers and PCs) over WAN
What AV are you changing from and what AV are you changing to?
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Hi Masnrock ,

I was thinking to build the new server in parallel to the exsting one , do the update and needed pacthes then start depolying 50 by 50

Hi JOhn ,

moving from trendmicro office scan to Kasapersky
Well in that case, you should be good. What system management tool do you use, SCCM?
there is no system managment any additional advice ?
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How do you deploy software now? Like if you were to upgrade MS Office across the entire company? I'd recommend your looking at SCCM or Quest Endpoint System Management.