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Add a user to the client system. Decide whether to add the users manually in ePolicy Orchestrator
or to add users using the Add local domain user option present under the Product Settings Policy. At least
one user must be assigned to each client in order to activate EEPC on it.
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Create a client task to deploy the EEPC components to the client systems. Make sure that you
deploy the packages in the right order (EEAgent then EEPC).
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Test for successful deployment, activation and encryption on targeted endpoints. Make sure to
make use of the reporting facilities available in the ePolicy Orchestrator management software.
Client task to deploy the EEAgent and EEPC packages
We recommend that you create a new system group in ePolicy Orchestrator for EEPC deployment.
Name it EEPC Test Systems or EEPC Production Systems, respectively, for example.
Do not create the deployment task at the My Organization level of the System Tree. Select a group in the
System Tree, go to the Client Tasks tab and create the deployment task.
Importing systems from Active Directory to ePolicy Orchestrator
McAfee ePO provides an AD Synchronization/NT domain task to synchronize ePolicy Orchestrator with the
configured Active Directory. This option allows you to map the ePolicy Orchestrator System Tree structure
with a registered AD. Using this option, you can import and effectively manage large numbers of
systems in ePolicy Orchestrator.
This option works only with Active Directory.
Refer to the ePolicy Orchestrator product documentation for versions 4.5 and 4.6, for detailed
procedures on how to import systems from Active Directory to ePolicy Orchestrator.
Order of the EEAgent and EEPC deployment
It is not mandatory to have two different tasks for the product deployment. You can create one single
task to deploy both packages, but don't forget that they need to be deployed in the right order. The
EEAgent package should be followed by the EEPC package.
If you configure to deploy the EEPC package followed by the EEAgent package then the client system
restarts in the middle as required and the EEAgent would never get deployed.
So, it is always better to execute the deployment using a single task wherein you need to deploy the
EEAgent package first then the EEPC package.
Figure 4-1 EEAgent and EEPC packages deployment
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Deployment and activation
Client task to deploy the EEAgent and EEPC packages
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