Product guide

information about installing or using McAfee ePO, see the ePolicy Orchestrator product documentation
for version 4.6.
Supported environments for McAfee ePO and Endpoint Encryption
As new operating systems and service packs are released, the original Product Guides for McAfee ePO
and Endpoint Encryption might not reflect the current McAfee support policy for those platforms. To
view supported environments for McAfee ePO and Endpoint Encryption, read these Knowledge Base
articles:
• EEPC— https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB76804
• EEMac—https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB68921
For more details, you can also refer to the McAfee Endpoint Encryption ‑ 7.0 Patch 1 Product Guide.
Hardware requirements for McAfee ePO
For details on the hardware requirements for McAfee ePO, See the product documentation for your
version of McAfee ePO.
Software requirements
For details on the software requirements for McAfee ePO and McAfee Agent, see the Release Notes for
EEPC and EEMac.
Clients communicating with McAfee ePO 4.6 through VPN disappear from the McAfee tree. For more
information, refer to the KnowledgeBase article https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?
page=content&id=KB52949.
Requirements testing for client systems
McAfee Endpoint Encryption for PC requirements must be met before it can be installed on a client
system.
McAfee Endpoint Encryption GO (EEGO) 7.0 Patch 1
McAfee provides the McAfee Endpoint Encryption GO (EEGO) 7.0 Patch 1 utility for system
administrators to determine which systems are compatible for installing and activating EEPC. EEGO
runs a set of compatibility tests on a client system, and then creates a report through the McAfee ePO
console that summarizes the readiness of the managed systems.
The McAfee Endpoint Encryption system policy can be configured to prevent activation of encryption
on client systems that fail EEGO testing.
Make sure that EEGO is not a pre‑requisite for installing EEPC and it comes as a separate package.
If the system is connected to the McAfee ePO server, the system sends the readiness status to McAfee
ePO through McAfee Agent.
The overall EEGO installation and deployment process can be simplified into the following steps.
This assumes that the user has already successfully installed McAfee ePO and has McAfee Agent
installed on all appropriate client systems that successfully communicates with McAfee ePO.
Design overview
Requirements testing for client systems
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