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That pesky sylink.xml file again…  We had to reinstall our SEPM server, which left a lot of clients stranded.  Well, rather than go around and reinstall on all the clients, which doesn’t work anyway, here’s a better way to update them.  The file, sylink.xml contains the entire configuration, so obtain a copy from a workstation that is successfully connected to the SEPM server in the group you want.  The file is located at c:\program files\symantec\symantec endpoint protection\sylink.xml.  Now that you have a good working copy, let’s move ahead.

Use a tool such as psexec to attach to the machine, or just pull them up with computer management, remotely.  Either via command prompt or compmgmt.msc, kill the “Symantec Management Client” aka smc.exe.  Using psexec, it’s smc.exe -stop.  Now either delete or rename sylink.xml and copy over the spare copy you hold in your hands.  Restart the SMC service (psexec, smc.exe -start).  Check your server for the new workstation and move it into the proper group if needed!

So K2 has had some issues when building the cached images on K2 items.  When you add an image, either from the server or from your PC, it is converted to .jpg instead of the original, transparent .png.

Let’s give credit where credit is due, special thanks to Stephen Austin over on the K2 forums and to David Goode and the dev team over on the Rockettheme forums.  Thanks a lot for your assist with this fix guys!

What a pain, let’s fix it:

I am using K2 2.4.1 as well as RokStories 2.0.  Here are the edits I made, I will provide downloadable copies of these files soon.

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