NIS 2008 Installation Vista

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When I tried to do an initial installation of NIS 2008 on my brand new Vista when connected to the internet, it actually prompt for downloading the latest setup files, after some selection it actually download a new shortcut to the installation pack on the desktop.

 

Can I know what is this all about? What is this process suppose to serve? Anyone experience this?

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Hi.

 

Nothing to be alarmed about.
Basically you're installation source (most likely a CD) is for NIS 15.0 which was the original release of the 2008 product line.
Since then, Symantec have improved/updated the NIS2008 installation to version 15.5.

When you start installing your CD of 15.0, as part of the process it checks that you are using the latest version of the installation files -- and in your case it finds out that you're not.
So the best thing to do is to install NIS 2008 using the shortcut created - which will download the 15.5 installer, extract it and then it'll esentially be the same as your CD except with numerous fixes/improvements.

It's similar to when you install Windows XP from a CD containing SP2 already compared to the gold version, of which you then have to download SP2/3 separately.

 

HTH :)