Feature request: Provide an option for Symantec Endpoint Encryption clients to have the option to not let users uninstall the product

Products

• Endpoint Encryption

Issue/Introduction

This request is being submitted for Symantec Endpoint Encryption clients that utilize either “Drive Encryption” or “Symantec Endpoint Encryption for Bit Locker” to have the option to not let users uninstall the product, similar to how Symantec Endpoint Encryption Removable Media Encryption performs this operation.

Image from the Symantec Endpoint Encryption Management Server, showing client package creation options.

 

Image from a Symantec Endpoint Encryption Removable Media Encryption client with the option set to not allow the product to be uninstalled.

 

Resolution

Symantec Corporation is committed to product quality and satisfied customers.  This Feature Request is currently being considered by Symantec Corporation to be addressed in a forthcoming version of the product.

Technical Support filed a Feature Request to add this product feature. Note that an feature request is exactly that, a request. There is no committed date for this request from the Endpoint Encryption Product Management team, nor from the Endpoint Encryption Engineering team at this time.

Please be sure to refer back to this document periodically as any changes to the status of the request will be reflected here.