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Operations and maintenance
Managing your systems in different batches, branches or groups will make a great impact for EEPC
deployment. It is a good practice to arrange the systems in ePolicy Orchestrator in department level or
batch level, then deploy the product to these batches one by one.
Managing the servers and client systems
Client deployment in batches with an appreciable number of systems is a good practice by itself.
Please keep the following recommendations in mind while managing the servers and client systems:
• Do not try to create the EEPC deployment task at the root level of your system tree and activate it.
It is a good practice to deploy EEPC to the systems at the sub-level branches.
• Do not deploy EEPC to the server systems, specially the server hosting your McAfee ePO server.
• Secure your McAfee ePO server and database system in the most secured location and keep it
accessible for authorized personnel only.
Contents
How does disabling/deleting a user in Active Directory affect the EEPC user
Manage Machine Keys
Configure role based access control for managing EEPC
EEPC 6.2 scalability
How does disabling/deleting a user in Active Directory affect
the EEPC user
Every user account has an objectGUID in LDAP and an entryUUID in Open LDAP. If a user account is
deleted from LDAP and another is created with the same user name, this new user account will be a
different entity. This is because the objectGUID would have changed for the new user.
To delete a user in LDAP
You must first delete the user in LDAP, then run the EE LDAP Server User/Group Synchronization task and send
an Agent wake-up call. The user will disappear from EE Users list after the EE LDAP Server User/Group
Synchronization task is complete.
The ePO Server Setting option If user is disabled in LDAP server within Server Settings | Edit | General can be
configured to disable, delete, or ignore the user if the user has been disabled in the LDAP Server.
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