Afternoon all,

We have recently deployed Kaspersky into our Organisation and want to configure the admin tools so that after a machine is found and put into a certain group it then has the agent automatically deployed, existing AV is removed and Kaspersky is installed.

Has anyone managed to do this?

Bring up the properties on the Group, switch to the Client Computers tab, put a check mark on your Network Agent and Antivirus installations listed there. The version 6 Kaspersky's are supposed to remove the major antivirus competitors duing the installation, check the documentation for which ones it can do. You need to make sure you're Admin Kit etc has the rights on the destination computers.

I've found that in order to remove McAfee, I have to create a new deinstallation task, and run that before trying to install Kaspersky. This is also a pain, because there's a separate task for each version of McAfee. We run anything from 7, to 8, to 8.5 here, so I have to know what PCs have what version before running the uninstallation task on them.

Go to report and report for application.

Create the report and you get a list of all third party products which are installed on the clients.

I created the group and selected the two items, it installed the agent straight away, then failed on the AV due to other priducts being installed. I have 4 other tasks to
a - remove EPO from the client
b - remove either 8.5, 8.0 or 7 (Each individual tasks)

I have found I can set these to run manually, on a schedule or immediatly. My only concern is that I want to run the agent first, then these tasks and then the Kaspersky AV installation.

Looking at the agent and AV tasks they are set to run when the machine is placed into the group but are set to a manual run schedule. Can I order the tasks to run in a certain order or do I have to stager the tasks and run them, say once an hour at differeing times?