Specifications

Configuring which products are deployed
Configure the agent client to deploy a product. See McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 Product Guide for
details.
Task
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Click Menu | Systems | System Tree | Client Tasks, then select a group in the System Tree.
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Click Actions | New Task. The Client Task Builder wizard opens.
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Type a name, select Product Deployment from the list, and click Next. The Client Task Builder page appears.
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Configure the Target platforms and Products and components.
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Optional. Click Run at every policy enforcement.
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Click Next to configure scheduling product deployment with randomization.
Schedule product deployment with randomization
The last and most important step in configuring your client task is to schedule the deployment.
The schedule you choose for your client task is critical because it affects:
• Bandwidth
• Which machines have the latest content for protection
• The quality of your compliance reports
If a deployment task is being deployed to multiple point-products for the first time, you want to
gradually roll out the products to some targeted test machines. The schedule you configure depends
on the bandwidth available in your environment. For example, if you are upgrading from VirusScan
Enterprise 8.7 to 8.8, you can look at the VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 package that you checked into the
ePolicy Orchestrator repository and see it is 36 MB. That means each machine you target for
deployment is pulling 36 MB from its nearest repository. If your McAfee ePO server is managing 5,000
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