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Enterprise Console 5.2.1 Upgrade Experience

drose23

We currently are on 5.2.0.644 of the Enterprise Console, and use fixed versions for a few areas.  Reading over the documentation, the fixed version support is being retired when one moves to 5.2.1 or later. 

I'm curious what that experience will be like - will I have the opportunity to modify each of the subscriptions I have, or will they be set to a default value (i.e. recommended)?  Some of our environment is a bit more sensitive, so I want to make sure I know what I'm getting into prior. 

I'm going to be setting up a test console for this very reason, so that I can understand the behavior.  Just looking to see if anyone has gone through it, and what their experience has been like. 

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    Hello drose23,

    it will not modify your existing fixed subscription but only nag you (please see Sophos is retiring the use of fixed versions: warning message displayed) - until it expires. Dunno how many versions you can choose from from then on though. Question is what sensitive means? If feature and/or engine changes are your concern then the Extended package should satisfy your needs.

    so that I can understand the behavior

    Judging from all the versions available at the moment there might be still some changes to come. Right now there are four (major) versions (9.5, 9.7, 10.0 and 10.2) and 10.3 in the Preview. Guess these numbers will "disappear" from the display. All except 10.2 have also Extended Maintenance labels but the contents are the same as for the "regular" packages. As the current 10.2 release 10.2.8 is older than a month this might indicate that we'll soon see an Extended package for it as well. 

    We've used a fixed subscription for "frozen" clients and decided to ditch it because we update them only twice a year (I know, this is not best practice) so the fixed subscription could not take us through a full cycle anyway. The Extended package is a small improvement - no more manual subscription updates and less software/engine updates but, like with fixed subscriptions, no way to "synch" the image and Sophos updates.

    Christian     

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    Hello drose23,

    it will not modify your existing fixed subscription but only nag you (please see Sophos is retiring the use of fixed versions: warning message displayed) - until it expires. Dunno how many versions you can choose from from then on though. Question is what sensitive means? If feature and/or engine changes are your concern then the Extended package should satisfy your needs.

    so that I can understand the behavior

    Judging from all the versions available at the moment there might be still some changes to come. Right now there are four (major) versions (9.5, 9.7, 10.0 and 10.2) and 10.3 in the Preview. Guess these numbers will "disappear" from the display. All except 10.2 have also Extended Maintenance labels but the contents are the same as for the "regular" packages. As the current 10.2 release 10.2.8 is older than a month this might indicate that we'll soon see an Extended package for it as well. 

    We've used a fixed subscription for "frozen" clients and decided to ditch it because we update them only twice a year (I know, this is not best practice) so the fixed subscription could not take us through a full cycle anyway. The Extended package is a small improvement - no more manual subscription updates and less software/engine updates but, like with fixed subscriptions, no way to "synch" the image and Sophos updates.

    Christian     

    :42750
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