About 3 months ago I was made aware of one of my clients that was planning to make the decision to update their corporate fleet to Microsoft Windows 7. Great move, however other applications also need review before a properly managed environment can be attained. Within my Threat Management realm that was tied down to Symantec Anti Virus Corporate Edition 10.x (SAVCE).
When I was alerted to the clients wishes to look into Windows 7 the premise was that they were only looking at it for suitability with their client managed application set. I mentioned quite strongly that SAVCE was an superceded product and offered no support for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Begrudgingly though I gave them an unmanaged client for Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) so that the client could continue on their way.
Knowing what was coming I scoped a SEP solution and submitted it for approval in the vain hope that we could have a managed environment ready for the production rollout. However, the project was not approved, yet the Windows 7 rollout has been performed on 140+ laptops running a standalone SEP client with no ability to manage or report upon the solution health or effectiveness.
So I immediately resubmitted the exact design to the powers that be. Now the project is being resubmitted, unfortunately we will now be under pressure to implement retrospectively quickly and not proactively as I had hoped, and thus prophecy fulfilled.
