I recently removed the Network Threat Protection component from the Symantec Endpoint Protection installation on all of the servers and desktops on a customer network. Here is a list of things that happened as a result:
- Backup throughput increased by 50% (using Symantec Backup Exec 11d)
- Exchange backups stopped failing due to the remote agent becoming disconnected
- Performance of SQL-based applications improved
- Group Policy processing time at desktop startup decreased
- LDAP search query times for the Exchange server improved (System Center Essentials was raising alarms for these taking over 6000ms sustained for 5 minutes, with the alarm threshold being 100ms)
- RPC latency for the Exchange server improved (SCE was raising alarms for average latency being over 70ms sustained for 5 minutes)
- Office applications opening files on network shares became more responsive
- Desktops stopped rebooting randomly throughout the day
Seriously, what a piece of junk.
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Make sure to disable windows fire wall after uninstall the network threat protection feature and try agin may be help
I totally agree. What a piece of junk. I’ve now spent about 3 weeks trying to bring my precious exchange server back to the pre-symantec state after installing the complete SEP. I first noticed exclamation marks on network devices and the forever haunting teefer2.sys. Uninstalling via control panel was unusuccessful and after many attemps, I used symantec’s manual removal instructions (http://www.nizmotek.com/blog/completely-uninstalling-symantec-endpoint-protection-the-manual-way/). I still cannot use the Exchange Management Console. I am actually dreading doing a complete new build and install and do a swing migration for all my mailboxes.
What a piece of junk!
As a follow up: I installed a brand new Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Update Rollup 5 and did a swing migration of all mailboxes, not to mention domain mail routing settings, etc., etc., etc.
Not fun.