Missed scheduled scans, will they still run?

Hello Scissor,

I have to schedule this scan *during the workday*, affecting everyone

I read this as - excuse my disparaging wording, I do not insinuate you'd put it this way - affecting everyone instead of only those blockheads who shut down the computer. I infer though that you can't (or don't want to) wake up the machines - this would IMO be the better method.

Sophos just doesn't take advantage of the feature

Perhaps because the advantage is small especially when compared to the potential problems. Guess most installations would not want to run a scan just after boot. One problem is that when the client has missed the schedule you likely can't prevent the scan from running if you change your mind. Another one, already mentioned, is that the client might have missed more than one scan (of course it'd be likely a per-scan option so if you are careful in setting it this shouldn't happen).

Anyway, if a policy mandates that a scan is performed this likely means that the scan should run to completion (and also that its results are checked). That the task finished successfully doesn't mean that the scan did (e.g. if the computer is shut down shortly after).

Christian 

Hello Scissor,

I have to schedule this scan *during the workday*, affecting everyone

I read this as - excuse my disparaging wording, I do not insinuate you'd put it this way - affecting everyone instead of only those blockheads who shut down the computer. I infer though that you can't (or don't want to) wake up the machines - this would IMO be the better method.

Sophos just doesn't take advantage of the feature

Perhaps because the advantage is small especially when compared to the potential problems. Guess most installations would not want to run a scan just after boot. One problem is that when the client has missed the schedule you likely can't prevent the scan from running if you change your mind. Another one, already mentioned, is that the client might have missed more than one scan (of course it'd be likely a per-scan option so if you are careful in setting it this shouldn't happen).

Anyway, if a policy mandates that a scan is performed this likely means that the scan should run to completion (and also that its results are checked). That the task finished successfully doesn't mean that the scan did (e.g. if the computer is shut down shortly after).

Christian