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

Question

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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QC · Accepted Answer

Hello givemecontrol,

when AD sync is configured with automatic protection SEC upon noticing a new computer in an OU dispatches an electronic monkey who will click Protect Computers and make the necessary arrangements with the wizard :P
How to setup AD sync is described in the Help. There's also an interactive article linked from the Enterprise Console documentation page which covers different scenarios with detailed instructions as well as references to related articles.

Christian