Maintenance is up on my Trend Micro Worry Free Advanced for 33 XP Pro workstations, a windows 2000 applications server and a Small Business Server 2003 Standard, using all features including Exchange email.
Is there going to be a version 5? Some other AV providers have dropped their SBS products, or are not updating them.
Does the product have a network console that runs on the windows 2000 server, providing install/updates/status/tools for servers and workstations.
Do I have to buy the server version and the sbs suite in order to achieve this objective? The windows 2000 server is just a dumb server without server services, needed for older applications.
I’ve already gone through Symantec Corporate and Trend Micro and both are very network unfriendly, very user unfriendly and require a lot of hands on knowledge-base visits and tweaking to get them to run properly, then it starts all over with each update and/or patch.
I have been using Avast Home (Free Version) for a few years now and have been very pleased. As an IT professional I have at least 30-50 friends and family members using it on their home computers, all very happy with it, hoping that the SBS version is going to make me and everyone else just as happy.
Just added, tried to contact someone in pre-sales to answer these questions. The toll free telephone number is for Digital River, the authorized re-seller, and they told me that they don’t sell the product, can’t answer questions, even though it is available for download. The re-sellers listed for USA/Florida all seem to be small fly-by-night individual companies that I won’t deal with.
I submitted the pre-sales questions using their contact form a couple of hours ago, no response.
What if I need technical support and there is nobody to contact, my servers and network are down, etc.
I think that is why I went with Trend Micro back in 2006, because I could not talk to anyone and nobody responded to my questions. I found this out by looking up my previous posts. I don’t like waiting around when I have good money to spend, so will probably end up with Kaspersky or something else.
