Adaptive Defense and Endpoint Protection products offer two options for distributing the protection to your computers using the installation program:
- Download it onto the administrator's computer and then carry out the installation on the rest of the network.
- Or send the link to each computer to download it via email. Then, each user can download and run it manually.
Downloading the installation program
- Access the administration console.
- Select the Installation tab.
- In Download installer for select the Windows installer or click the link displayed in the window.
- Next, select the group to which you want to add the computers to use the installer on and click Download.
- Click Save in the WAAgent.msi file download window.
- When the download has finished, run the file from the directory you have saved it in. A wizard will guide you through the installation process.
Note: Short network connection interruptions may occur during the protection installation process. - Distribute the protection to the rest of the computers in the network. You can use your own tools (Logon Script, Active Directory, Tivoli, etc), or install it manually.
Sending the link by email
- Select the group to which you want to add the computers to use the installer on
- Click Send by email. Automatically users will receive an email with the download link. If you prefer, you can copy the direct link on the computers you want to install the protection on.
- To start the installation, users simply need to click the download link.
Note: Short network connection interruptions may occur during the protection installation process.
Additional information
To install the protection for Exchange Servers (only available for Endpoint Protection Plus clients), check How to install the Exchange Server protection included in Endpoint Protection Plus.
Endpoint Protection can also be installed through the distribution tool. For further information, check How to install Adaptive Defense and Endpoint Protection installed using the distribution tool?
