disable symantec endpoint protection system tray icon

Woohoo! Turns out we already had the proper maintenance pack installed, so I tested adding the registry key and it worked great.

Too much wasted time on that forum thread!!!Īfter some more googling (sp?) I came across this Symantec knowledge base article.

Reading this thread leads to nasty hacks like renaming the SmcGui.exe executable file (which doesn't work), replacing the file (which sometimes works), and some other issues. Problem: Even if you setup a policy via the SEP Management Console to disable the system tray icon, the server still launches SmcGui.exe, and fails to close the process when they logout.Ī quick google of SmcGui.exe and Citrix yeilds a terribly log thread on the issue over at Symantec's forums. Disable the icon.Ĭonfigure a policy on the SEP server for terminal servers to disable the system tray icon and the gui. Upon closing their published application (any application), the little yellow shield, as well as the SmcGui.exe process, stay running in the background. This also puts a SEP icon (little yellow shield) in the users system tray. We have been experiencing some issues with Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) and Citrix.īy default, when users would launch a published application via Citrix, the Symantec Management Client (smc.exe) service launches a process called SmcGui.exe.

Disable symantec endpoint protection system tray icon