We're starting to look at avast, coming from McAfee's ePO product, and compared to ePO, the avast Enterprise Administration Console is missing a number of features essential to large organizations. We have over 6,000 machines in our environment and, so far, the most important items we've found to be missing, in order of priority, are:
Sorting computers by OU - We make heavy use of OU's in Active Directory to sort computers by department for distributed administration. If we are not able to get our computers sorted by OU rather than just by domain, this may be a deal-breaker for implementing the product.
Active Directory authentication for administrators - Not necessarily a deal-breaker, but with the number departmental OU admins we have, not keeping another local password is highly desirable.
Web Based Console - The trend for enterprise management consoles over the last few years has been to move to the web. This is almost essential for heterogeneous environments where you have a mix of Windows, Mac, and Linux/Unix desktops.
I really want to like this product. The price is certainly right (we're .edu) and I think the endpoint client compares very favorably to McAfee Enterprise VirusScan, but we're really going to have to think about whether we can live without the OU sorting before we rip and replace McAfee. Are any of these items on the development roadmap?
Brian
