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Release Update 4 for Symantec EndPoint 12.1 is now available. It can be downloaded from FileConnect by customers with current maintenance and as a trial from the public site for those that wish to try it out.

Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.4 has added support for a number of new operating systems including:

• Windows Server 2012 Release 2 (R2)
• Windows 8.1
• Mac OSX 10.9

In addition to this, there have been a lot of features added on the Mac OS side. Symantec had seen a dramatic rise in malware targeted towards the Mac and 12.1.4 is the response to that. One such example was the Flashback virus which affected approximately 600,000 Mac computers back in 2012. In fact, Symantec reports that the number of malware variants in 2012 almost doubled for the Mac. Symantec proposes that this huge increase in Mac malware coincides with Apple’s continued market share growth, especially in the enterprise. As this market share continues to grow Symantec estimates so will the malware variants.

To combat this growing threat Symantec now offers Network Threat Protection for the Mac. This was previously a feature that was only available on the PC. The inclusion of Network Threat Protection now gives Mac users a powerful best-in-class Intrusion Prevention System. This provides an additional layer of security to the already powerful antivirus and anti-malware engines.

V-79-57344-38273 – Final error: 0xe0009581 – Cannot get the virtual machine XML information.

This error can be caused by a number of problems but in my case, it was a very simple fix and, it may be for you too. This error occurred after I renamed one of my virtual machines. However, selections for both the new name and the old name still existed in the Backup Exec job. These selections did not show in the GUI. To fix this issue I had to remove the old names from the Backup Details tab. This is the text-based representation of the Backup Selections.

V-79-10000-11226 – VSS Snapshot error. The Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot provider selected returned: “Unexpected provider error”.

I was receiving this error in Backup Exec 2010 R3 while trying to back up a virtualized Exchange 2010 server. This error seemed a little odd, so first I ran VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS from the command prompt  I verified all my writers were listed as “Stable” and all reported “No Errors”. I then ran VSSADMIN LIST PROVIDERS and immediately identified my problem.