OfficeScan 10.6 Upgrade Project

Our current OfficeScan environment is two revisions behind (Office 10.0 -> 10.5 - 10.6)

The plan is to upgrade our current environment from OfficeScan 10.0 to OfficeScan 10.6.

New servers will be provisioned by UIT ESS group that will eventually replace the current three Server 2003 VMs that are running the OfficeScan 10.0 environment. These servers will be newly built VMs and will not be an in-place upgrade. Clients will be gradually moved over to the new servers after pilot testing is completed.

Documentation

New Features

OfficeScan 10.5
- OfficeScan leverages Microsoft™ Active Directory™ so you can manage the OfficeScan client tree and perform a variety of OfficeScan administration tasks.
- Smart Protection Solutions
  - - Smart protection network solutions is a next-generation, in-the-cloud based, endpoint protection solution. At the core of these solutions is an advanced scanning architecture that leverages anti-malware signatures and Web reputation data that are stored in-the-cloud.

- Security Compliance

Ensure that OfficeScan client services, settings, scanning, and components comply with security settings for overall endpoint protection. Administrators can use this feature to do the following:

Generate reports on non-compliant clients
Determine and ensure compliance for endpoints in the network that are not managed by OfficeScan servers