Mail Security can simplify the management of one or more Microsoft Exchange Servers across your organization. You can create the server groups that have a common purpose and, therefore, require the same protection. By grouping servers, you can apply a common set of protection settings once, rather than repeatedly to each server. The reduction in configuration time and maintenance costs can be considerable in a large network with multiple servers that perform similar roles.

Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft exchange primarily consists of two components, server and console. With this console, you can manage your Mail Security from a single computer. When you open this console, mail security automatically logs onto all of your managed servers. The console logs onto a server to check status or apply settings to it. Several settings like remote install and upgrade can be done with the console. As per your requirement you can create various server groups that serve a similar purpose. You can also deploy settings to all you managed servers in the group from the console. By grouping servers, you can apply a set of security rules or policies settings once, rather than repeatedly to each server.

You can configure settings for each server individually. You can use the following groups to configure and manage multiple servers:

See Viewing the status of a server

Settings for an individual server are stored by that server. Mail Security saves the settings for groups in the following default file location:

\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\CMaF\2.3\Settings\Groups

The associated files are automatically deleted when you delete a group.