Hi All,
We will soon be upgrading from SEP 11 to SEP 12 and will be using a third party tool to distribute the client package to the endpoints. This deployment will be done a month or two after the package has been created. Since the deployment will be done to hundreds of clients at one shot, I am worried about the bandwidth issues that may arise due to the clients reaching out to the SEPM to get the av updates and ending up in pulling down full zip (greater than 200MB) instead of deltas (Our SEPMs are configured to retain only 30 content revisions). Hundreds of clients reaching out to the SEPM for full zips is going to put a lot of load on our network.
I refereed to this article which seemed like a possible solution: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/ideas/reduce-first-time-definition-update-size. But , would this really work? Wont the clients client freeze forever at the same content revision level defined in the LiveUpdate Content policy? Will the clients be able to get the delta instead of a full zip?
Any alternative solutions to this problem? Appreciate your thoughts.
Thanks!