We are very happy to announce the official release of our Endpoint Protection legacy products. These products include Endpoint Protection, Endpoint Protection Plus, Endpoint Protection Suite and Suite Plus. This also includes program updates for both our Enterprise Administration Console (AEA) and Small Office Administration Console (SOA) as well as our stand alone version of Email Server Security (ESS) and File Server Security.
The new version includes:
Windows 10 compatibility
Win XP update issue fix
Behavior Shield functionality is now part of File system shield
Managed EP clients (Stand Alone) (ver.8.0.1606.511)
Email and File server security (ver. 8.0.1606.511)
*Before you can update your managed clients you MUST FIRST update the console, then once the console has been updated you can push the program update to the clients and/or deploy a new client installation for example to a Windows 10 machines.
How to Update Small Office Administration Console
You can update directly from the SOA console via the console Update Tab (*Please note that if you were using the Test BETA then you CAN NOT update from the console directly and must run the new installer over the beta console and then redeploy to the clients.
OR (if you have some trouble updating this way)
You can update the SOA console by running the new installer found in the downloads on the avast! website. Please be sure to choose the correct Endpoint Product + Mirror when running over your current installation.
How to Update Enterprise Administration Console (AEA)
You can update the EA console by going to the Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Choose update option and the console will update automatically. Once the update is complete you can
*Please note that after the client has received the new program update or new installation a reboot is typically needed to complete the update.
We thank you for all of your continued support, cooperation and loyalty though this time and we continue to appreciate your feedback.
If you have any questions or issues we ask that you email us directly at absfeedback@avast.com. If you purchased your product from a reseller we kindly ask that you first contact your reseller so they can assist you in your local language and so they can provide quick and efficient expertise.
Thank you again and Happy Holidays to you all.
Kind Regards
Che Johnson
Avast Senior Technical Specialist
But first “Houston, WE still have a problem”: When I try to update a SOA console under the console “About” ->“Update” tab it says “Your program is up to date”…SO now I try to downoad and update manually… ??? I hope that works
The “non-plus-ultra” in the story: the new SOA required the latest Silverlight plug-in, BUT the “Click here to download the latest version of Silverlight” link points to an older version… so everyone with the same issue go and download Silverlight plug-in from the Microsoft’s Silverlight site… :
But yes for silverlight installations you can do the following for chrome.
How to Enable NPAPI plugins (Silverlight) - Windows only
Open Chrome and browse to chrome://flags/#enable-npapi
Click the Enable NPAPI setting.
After that, click “Relaunch Now” at the bottom of your Chrome window. Note: Closing and reopening Chrome is not sufficient, you must click the “Relaunch Now” button.
Yes, npapi not in list, because
NPAPI support will be completely removed from Chrome. We expect this to happen before the end of 2014. – (Google Chrome team)
This means by end of this year Silverlight will stop functioning in the Chrome browser, which represents roughly a 45% audience based on June 2014 browser statistics. http://www.overdigital.com/2014/09/08/silverlight-stopped-will-stop-working-chrome-browser-now/ - find here.
Fact is Silverlight will died like Flash in the near future, with all security bugs, that is the cause why Chrome, FF and all others kicked it out, and the workaround help but it not the right way for the future, Avast !
“Microsoft announced that the upcoming Edge browser, available in Windows 10, will not support Silverlight for video playback. Originally developed by Microsoft as an alternative to Adobe Flash, development around Silverlight was focused on streaming media, but became obsolete over time as support for a more universal standard in HTML5 was being developed. Microsoft actively stopped developing Silverlight in 2013 and competing browsers, like Google Chrome, are ending support for Silverlight.”
Hi, I can’t run the latest SOA on Windows 2003 Server. It complains that Silverlight is out of date, but it’s running the latest version available for XP/2003 which is 5.1.40416.0. There is a later version 5.1.41105.0, but appears to be for Windows 7/2008 Server and later.
Any way to bypass the check for the latest version?
Second, the firewall refuses to install. Have tried on multiple machines and its a no go.
I have ran uninstall/change from control panel to manually add the firewall and its a no go also. States “The Avast! Firewall driver couldn’t be installed. The installation will proceed without the avast! firewall component.”
The firewall is enabled on the AEA.
Anyone ideas as to what may be wrong… Client is Windows 10 Pro
I’m using Avast EPS with Enterprise Administration Console and have 600 users. Around 400 users are located at the remote site with connected by private network. I can update VPS for the remote client normally, but it can’t be update the program since they don’t have Internet access. It’s a problem why the program update through the Internet instead of our EAS server. Please help and thanks in advance.