SCCM SCEP with mcafee antivirus installed

Question

Hi,

We have few prod servers which has a mix of mcafee viruscan enterprise and mcafee endpoint security antivirus installed. I am responsible for uninstalling the mcafee antivirus and then install SCEP to be managed by SCCM. The servers have 2012 and 2008 version. The issue here is that we can only reboot the prod servers once.

My question is, what would be the best way to do this. Install the SCCM client first and have them onboard to SCCM and not push any antimalware policy. Then uninstall the mcafee antivirus and then have the reboot. Or have the mcafee uninstall first, reboot and then manually install the SCCM client. Wouldnt manually installing the sccm client by itself for the full functionality requires a reboot ?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

What's best for your scenario is based entirely on your environment and preferences.

As for whether the ConfigMgr agent requires a reboot, no, not ever. However, some prerequisite components on the agent that are installed by ccmsetup (the client installer) may require a reboot; e.g., .NET Framework if that's not up to date. Even if this is the case though, ccmsetup won't ever initiate a reboot. It'll simply stop and happily wait for some other event to initiate the reboot after which it'll pick up and finish the installation.

Also, just because you have a requirement to only reboot once, doesn't meet you can meet this requirement based on what you are doing and how you are doing it.