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Windows Server 2003 support

Barry Pain

I'm a little confused.

We had all our estate reporting and updating to an SEC instance and we started to migrate to Sophos Central. we still have a very few instances of 2003 that we initally migrated but subsequently, Sophos removed support. We purchased a number of extended support licenses for these, but I noticed they permanently showed in an error state on the Central console. We have now migrated these back to our SEC instance where they show as the expected status.

 

Is this correct or should we be able to manage 2003 in Sophos Central as well? the article here indicates we should be able to. 

 

Does anyone have a definitive answer? I appreciate we have a massive problem still running some applications on 2003 but until we can retire them we have little choice.



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    Hi Barry,

    Did you find an answer to this? We're considering migrating to Sophos Central from SEC, but we (unfortunately) have a few Windows Server 2003 end points. 

    I noticed 2003 is no longer on their Supported endpoint list for Sophos Central ( however, in the migration tool there are still options for 2003 and XP. )

    Cheers,

    Sam

  • +1 in reply to Tricky

    Hello Sam,

    both Sophos Central - Extended Anti-Virus support for Windows XP/2003 and the recent post by StephenMcKay suggest that 2003 is still supported. Now SESC and Central licensing use a different mechanism - if you have purchased Extended licenses they might not automatically apply to Central as well.

    Christian

  • 0 in reply to QC

    Thanks Christian,

    From what I've found in reading those links you provided and a few others forum posts, I think we'll do a staged migration; keeping older endpoints in SEP but migrate the rest to Central. I haven't even started a line of enquiry with Sophos on our licensing upgrade rights, if any; so it all depends on that as well.

    You've also brought to light the answer to another issue we've been encountering. Sophos hasn't been updating it's client on Server 2003 R2 endpoints, and that is probably because we need to purchase Extended licenses.

    Our console is somewhat of a mess. I might need to allocate a chunk of time to true it up before.

    Thanks again for your help,

    Sam

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