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Sophos clients updating

Luka

Hi to all and thanks for any help.

I have deployed Sophos AntiVirus and Data control on more than 100 machines. Most of them work all the time.

Is there any way to set the client computers to check for updates at exact time?

As far as I see, only thing I can change is the interval for checking for updates.

Is there any way  to set this valuu to fix time, lets say 02:30?

Regards,

Luka

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    Hi,

    There isn't a way to to it in the product as such but you could try:

    1. performing the following registry key change: http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/27646.html to prevent AutoUpdate performing an update after the AutoUpdate service starts.

    2. Disable schedule updating in the policy or client if unmanaged.

    3. Poke AutoUpdate into calling update now at the time required possibly with a Windows scheduled task.  This can be done with a simple piece of VBScript as per: http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/36262.html 

    Set objALC = CreateObject("ActiveLinkClient.ClientUpdate.1")
objALC.UpdateNow 1,1

     You would then need to schedule this at the times required on the clients.  To do so: /search?q= 9891 might give you a few ideas on how to roll out a scheduled task. 

    I would suggest that any script to call an update should reset the registry key mentioned in point 1, to ensure it is preserved on updates.  You may still get one update not at the time of the scheduled task if AutoUpdate updates itself, removes the key and then would perform an update at startup of the service.

    Hope that helps.

    Regards,

    Jak

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    Hi,

    There isn't a way to to it in the product as such but you could try:

    1. performing the following registry key change: http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/27646.html to prevent AutoUpdate performing an update after the AutoUpdate service starts.

    2. Disable schedule updating in the policy or client if unmanaged.

    3. Poke AutoUpdate into calling update now at the time required possibly with a Windows scheduled task.  This can be done with a simple piece of VBScript as per: http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/36262.html 

    Set objALC = CreateObject("ActiveLinkClient.ClientUpdate.1")
objALC.UpdateNow 1,1

     You would then need to schedule this at the times required on the clients.  To do so: /search?q= 9891 might give you a few ideas on how to roll out a scheduled task. 

    I would suggest that any script to call an update should reset the registry key mentioned in point 1, to ensure it is preserved on updates.  You may still get one update not at the time of the scheduled task if AutoUpdate updates itself, removes the key and then would perform an update at startup of the service.

    Hope that helps.

    Regards,

    Jak

    :18897
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