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decrease latency of auto update poll at startup on provisioned images

squire12

Is there are way to force the auto-update polling after reboot to begin its process quicker? We are using Citrix Provisioning Server to rollout our Citrix servers and use the Sophos guideline from kb article, 28591, "How to prepare Endpoint Security and Control for inclusion in a disk image". The problem is, after the server has booted up, the update process takes approximately 5 minutes before doing it's thing of configuring the SAV and RMS client. I'm thinking of using a script but I am looking to see if there is anything configurable in SOPHOS before doing so due to multiple Citrix services, and others, that also kick in at startup.

thanks,

es

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    Hi,

    Couple of options:

    1. trigger an update using a small VBS file, could maybe run this from a "Start-up" location:

    dim objALC : set objALC = CreateObject("ActiveLinkClient.ClientUpdate.1")
objALC.UpdateNow 1,1

     2. Set the reg key:

    32-bit machines

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sophos\AutoUpdate] "

    StartupDelay"=dword:0000000a  

    64bit machines

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\wow6432node\Sophos\AutoUpdate] "

    StartupDelay"=dword:0000000a

    As required, the value should be in seconds.  So decimal 60, would be 1 minute.

    You can check it works by restarting the AutoUpdate service (alsvc.exe).  After it restarts, you should see it kick off Alupdate.exe.

    Regards,

    Jak

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