

The password parameter should look like this.Īfter that I restarted the Symantec Protection Engine (SPE) services under Windows Services console. Guess what, I found the encrypted password there. I then searched for the password parameter.

I went to the Symantec Scan Engine folder location and opened the configuration.xml file. You are not prompted for a password again. Type the following command in the command prompt: The command line tool CmdSymScan lets you remove the password. If you forget the console password, you can reset the password. That is the one method to recover lost password for Symantec Protection Engine (SPE). I looked at the Symantec Protection for SharePoint Servers implementation guideand under chapter-7 found the section titled ‘Unable to remember the console password’. Symantec Protection Engine Portal Password Failure SPE and SPSS services in Windows services console were running. Login failed or Symantec Protection Engine server is not running. It was a race against the time! Error Message On top of that the Symantec license was about to expire in few days. We were using the right password but somehow SPE was not accepting it.

I came across a scenario where the password for the Symantec Protection Engine (SPE) portal was lost. On each SharePoint Server running SPSS, usually you also have Symantec Protection Engine (SPE) there as well running under SPE portal is usually password protected. SPSS uses Symantec Protection Engine (SPE) as the underlining solution to provide the security framework to SPSS. Symantec Protection for SharePoint Servers (SPSS) is an antivirus solution for SharePoint. Recover Symantec Protection Engine Lost Password
