Question about installing SAV 10.0 v NAV 2006 as a stand-alone

[PPettit]

At my main office I have about 15 centrally managed Symantec Antivirus Corproate Edition v10.0 clients. At my other 9 remote offices (in 9 different cities with 2-7 users each), everyone has Norton Antivirus 2004/2005. I want to upgrade these remote clients to the latest version.

My local vendor tells me to just buy more SAV licenses and install it as a stand-alone on each machine. Are there any advantages/disadvantages to doing this instead of installing NAV 2006? Would it make sense to try and manage these remote clients from our SAV server if I do install the SAV client? In case you're wondering, most of the offices have some kind of DSL or wireless service but a few are so remote that they only have dial-up access.

Suggestions?

 

[wasisnt]

I think setting up that many remote clients to be administered at one location would be a headache. I dont know if it can even be done without some sort of a VPN connection so the server can see all the clients. Ive used SAV as a standalone installation before and it works fine. I like it better than NAV. It seems more stable.

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[PPettit]

Thanks for the reply, wasisnt.

SAV seems more stable to me as well. I'm definitely leaning in the direction of installing it as a stand-alone.

 

[58sniper]

If there is no VPN connection to the office where the parent server is, you could install the SAV client and it'll just be unmanaged. If there IS a VPN connection, deploy it as managed.

Pat Richard, MCSE(2) MCSA:Messaging, CNA(2)