Symantec Endpoint Protection Installation and Administration Guide

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Importing client-server communication settings into the Windows client

Once you have exported client-server communication settings, you can import them into a Windows client. You can use it to convert an unmanaged client into a managed client or to reconnect a previously orphaned client with
Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager
.
  1. To import the client-server communications settings file into the Windows client
  2. Open
    Symantec Endpoint Protection
     on the computer that you want to convert to a managed client.
  3. In the upper right, click
    Help
    , and then click
    Troubleshooting
    .
  4. In the
    Troubleshooting
     dialog box, in the
    Management
     pane, click
    Import
    .
  5. In the
    Import Group Registration Settings
     dialog box, locate the
    group name_sylink
    .xml file, and then click
    Open
    .
  6. Click
    Close
     to close the
    Troubleshooting
     dialog box.
    After you import the communications file, and the client and the management server communicate, the notification area icon appears with a green dot in the computer's taskbar. The green dot indicates that the client and the management server are in communication with each other.