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Does sophos on domain detect reimaged machines and trigger a reinstall?

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Is there a task or something that i can run on the sophos enterprise console to reinstall machines which a) do not have it installed or b) had it installed, were reimaged and now need it again.

I have looked through several documents, and it seems like the only solution involved running startup scripts (spew), which with everyone being a limited user, would fail anyways.

Some other antivirus providers have a like "install task" that you can set to run every hour or 8 hours or whatever and it will go and look on all the computers it knows about and install update the ones which does not have the program installed. Does  a similar functionality exist for sophos?

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    It would be nicer to have some other method, but i have put the startup script now and hopefully it is quick as you say. i have tested it on a few machines now and it is acceptable.

    in regards to syncronizing AD, yes I re-read that article you linked. so far the options that I see for doing this are:

    1) use sophos console to "protect computers"

    As you say previously "it does so only for newly detected computers (i.e. those added to a synchronized OU) and makes only one attempt (if you reimage a computer with the same name it might appear the same and protection will not be reattempted)."

    I am not sure what would be doing that "automatically".

    So if i add a computer to my OU in active directory, sophos will push it, not by script, and not by clicking "protect computers" and going through wizard? I just want to make sure I am understanding what you wrote. You do say it will detect and install on "newly detected computers" but I do not see where I would configure this.

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    It would be nicer to have some other method, but i have put the startup script now and hopefully it is quick as you say. i have tested it on a few machines now and it is acceptable.

    in regards to syncronizing AD, yes I re-read that article you linked. so far the options that I see for doing this are:

    1) use sophos console to "protect computers"

    As you say previously "it does so only for newly detected computers (i.e. those added to a synchronized OU) and makes only one attempt (if you reimage a computer with the same name it might appear the same and protection will not be reattempted)."

    I am not sure what would be doing that "automatically".

    So if i add a computer to my OU in active directory, sophos will push it, not by script, and not by clicking "protect computers" and going through wizard? I just want to make sure I am understanding what you wrote. You do say it will detect and install on "newly detected computers" but I do not see where I would configure this.

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