Using smc to change a device's tenant or domain You can use the smc command to convert Windows devices back to management by the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager.ĭisaster recovery best practices for Endpoint Protection Make sure you make a backup of the database before you upgrade in case you need to perform disaster recovery later. However, you must reinstall the management server if you uninstalled it. If you upgrade from Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager to the cloud, you can later revert back to managing with Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager. Getting started with Symantec Endpoint Security Upgrading from Symantec Endpoint Protection to Symantec Endpoint Security If there is no equivalent setting, the previous Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager setting takes precedence. When you upgrade to Symantec Endpoint Security, the equivalent setting in the cloud takes precedence over the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager setting. To manage your clients from the cloud, you log on to your Symantec cloud account directly and do not enroll your Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager domain in the cloud. You want unified visibility into threats, policies and incidents from multiple Symantec products, which reduces incident response times from days to minutes.

You have multiple Symantec enterprise products and want to share management capabilities across a single management console. You do not want the cost or overhead of installing and managing a management server and database.

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