What is it's usefulness, does it deploy the client automatically? We also have a lot of what I call dead space computers in our OS's because we have a lot of computers being taken out and added in. Would I end up with a console with tons of clients that will look like they need Symantec but in reality are these dead computers? thanks for any good links
Gary
Hi,
AD sync is not for automatic SEP deployment.
If you remove the dead computers from your AD, they are removed from SEPM as well, aren't they?
Regards,
If you have computers synched to AD can you install the client from there?
NO. You cannot install/Deploy from AD automatically. However you can do GPO deployment but it is not dependant on AD sync.
If the clients are not there in AD in next Sync they will drop from SEPM aswell. Just make sure you have SEPM of not very old version.
one advantage is to know which all computers not installed with OU, when SEPM synched with OU. However as everyone above have said you cannot deploy.
How to configure Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager to synchronize user data with a directory server http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH96201&locale=en_US