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Mac OS - pre-configuring Autoupdate

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We have quite a number of Macs (not surprising at a university) but no official Mac support. Nevertheless we offer Sophos for Macs (in a downloadable .zip archive).  

When Sophos is installed on a Mac on our network it connects to the management server from where it gets the update policy (the CIDs contain the correct mrinit.conf for RMS to work). Of course this does not work if the Mac is used at home. For windows PCs putting sauconf.xml placed in the appropriate directory does the trick. There are some articles in the knowledgebase but usually a Mac is required with which you can configure the CID (if I understand correctly). I believe no magic is actually involved and the configuration is stored somewhere in a .plist file (XML format). I suspect that the catalogues are involved and configcid.exe does not support a CID for OSX.

Or is there a "simple" way to pre-configure autoupdate (even if it's unsupported)? sau.plist looks suspicous  :smileywink:

Christian

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    Just gave the 9.0.3 Preview a look. The plist hack will definitely no longer work (if it did at all with ML).

    There is an article about pre-configuring the standalone installer but it is neither complete (it wasn't me who gave the very poor rating) - it does for example not tell you which URL to use for server type Sophos - nor does it apply to the managed version. So you can't even work around the lack of integration. Perhaps you can still provide a copy-plist-after-install script like remo/eniac suggested, Sophos should at least comment whether this is "permissible" or not. Maybe the management part ("classic" SEC with RMS and all related aspects) is no longer developed and all the effort goes into the Cloud solution, I don't know :smileysad: ...

    Christian

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    Just gave the 9.0.3 Preview a look. The plist hack will definitely no longer work (if it did at all with ML).

    There is an article about pre-configuring the standalone installer but it is neither complete (it wasn't me who gave the very poor rating) - it does for example not tell you which URL to use for server type Sophos - nor does it apply to the managed version. So you can't even work around the lack of integration. Perhaps you can still provide a copy-plist-after-install script like remo/eniac suggested, Sophos should at least comment whether this is "permissible" or not. Maybe the management part ("classic" SEC with RMS and all related aspects) is no longer developed and all the effort goes into the Cloud solution, I don't know :smileysad: ...

    Christian

    :43785
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