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Custom Standalone Mac Installer

Hello.  I'm hoping someone can help with a question or two.

In the past we have created custom install packages for our Mac clients.  A "managed" version that after install reports back to our server for updates, has our server as the primary location and Sophos as the secondary, etc and an "unmanaged" version that only has Sophos as the primary update location as well as a few custom preference settings.  This had been done using the SUM tool but I've been told that product no longer works for version 9.x.  I can use the .mpkg file from our server as the "managed" version installer but nobody can tell me how to create the custom "unmanaged" version.

I feel there must be a way to acomplish this but don't know how.  I find it odd that Sophos would remove the abilities of the SUM tool without having something to take its place.  SUM still works and downloads data but only downloads old data.

Can someone tell me how we are supposed to continue offering the "unmanaged" version to our users?  I know Sophos has the stand-alone version of the products available on the website for download but that isn't configured the way we could like it for our customers.  If there was a way to modify the settings inside ofthat package perhaps that might work but I don't know if that's possible either.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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  • QC wrote:

    Hello Carob,

    please see Re: SEC 5.2.1 and Sophos for MAC OS X Preview (9.0.3) and Re: Mac OS - pre-configuring Autoupdate for version 9.0.x (you might want to read some of the other posts in these threads as well).

    I can use the .mpkg file from our server as the "managed" version installer

    As far as I understand doing it this way the Macs will communicate with the management server, appear in the Unassigned group and subsequently get the the updating policy when moved to the appropriate group. Your comments are welcome.

    Christian


    Correct, we want the "managed" version to communicate with the server and appear in "unassigned".  No problems there.  The problem lies in being able to create the "unmanaged" version.  I have responsed to the first thread you mentioned.  Hopefully something will come of that.  The second thread seems of no help for my particular situation.

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  • QC wrote:

    Hello Carob,

    please see Re: SEC 5.2.1 and Sophos for MAC OS X Preview (9.0.3) and Re: Mac OS - pre-configuring Autoupdate for version 9.0.x (you might want to read some of the other posts in these threads as well).

    I can use the .mpkg file from our server as the "managed" version installer

    As far as I understand doing it this way the Macs will communicate with the management server, appear in the Unassigned group and subsequently get the the updating policy when moved to the appropriate group. Your comments are welcome.

    Christian


    Correct, we want the "managed" version to communicate with the server and appear in "unassigned".  No problems there.  The problem lies in being able to create the "unmanaged" version.  I have responsed to the first thread you mentioned.  Hopefully something will come of that.  The second thread seems of no help for my particular situation.

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