18:27:40.966 Symantec Endpoint Protection Installer About to compare 10.12.0 with 10.15.6 18:27:40.966 Symantec Endpoint Protection Installer SymantecRegistry.xml file not present.

18:27:40.966 Symantec Endpoint Protection Installer Setup.ini file not found at path=/Library/Application Support/Symantec/SMC/setup.ini I have added the Symantec Installer App to have full disk via privacy settings. To work around this, the remote deployment solution may be configured to call first a dummy script that in turn calls the removal tool without any extra arguments. Remote deployment solutions (Casper, JAMF, et al) that automatically populate shell script arguments ($1, $2, etc) with other data may cause the Symantec tool to throw an error. Any arguments they receive are each assumed to be potential installation points for Symantec products. Symantec provides support for SymantecRemovalTool/RemoveSymantecMacFiles only when running them locally it is the customer's responsibility to integrate SymantecRemovalTool with Apple Remote Desktop or other remote deployment tools.īoth of these tools requires no arguments. For more information, please see the readme file included with the SymantecRemovalTool download.

As with RemoveSymantecMacFiles, all files and folders that Symantec Mac products have created will be removed therefore, you will lose all files that reside in those folders, including any that you have created manually. It requires no user input when run as root. At this point, proceed to upload the new package to JAMF and create a policy to deploy SymantecRemovalTool is a modification to RemoveSymantecMacFiles, designed to be pushed out using customer's choice of remote deployment tool. PKG file will be at the previously specified location.ħ. When the package creation completes successfully, click OK. Type the desired name, select a folder where you want to save the file, and then click Save.Ħ. In the menu, click Tools > Create remote deployment package. Click Continue in the warning message to acknowledge that a system restart is required after install.ĥ. Double-click Symantec Endpoint Protection Installer to launch the application.Ĥ. On a test Mac, extract the Symantec Endpoint Protection Installer file.ģ. If you are managing your SEP clients via a SEPM, export the most recent Mac version.Ģ. I could not find anything here and this is why I am posting this. For me, it was hard to find an article with instructions to accomplish this. I just wanted to share with the community that I found a straightforward method to create a Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) v.

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