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If I am seeing things right, it looks like Virus definition updates and other regular updates are not performed after software is initially deployed with EPO.

a. Am I correct about this?

b.Is the update section in the Agent Policy / General supposed to control that? Aka, if I enable the checkboxes for signatures/engines/patches/service packs for the products I have installed. Will those updates be performed immediately after the various software packages are deployed?

Thanks!

-Jon R.

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You need to create an update task and schedule it daily or whatever suits.

the reason nothing exists by default is smaller companies may do this as one hit, patches, policies and updates, larger companies may split it out per product.

Either way, you need to create an update task

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Rod,

Thanks for the advice. I will definitely check into creating daily update tasks.

But what I am still curious about is, what is the following screen for?

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The documentation doesn’t seem to indicate what the update tab for the Agent Policy settings does. But I was curious about the option “enable update after deployment”

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https://docs.mcafee.com/bundle/agent-5.5.0-interface-reference-guide-epolicy-orchestrator-cloud/page/GUID-81F35295-298E-486F-8D24-FF8FE253DE2E.html

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though I would create a new client task

Client task catalog > agent > new task > product update

Configure it here then apply it to either servers, desktops, both or whatever device type/tag you need

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Just an FYI - I have somewhere in the region of 15 years with EPO/McAfee products.