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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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    Hello Christian,

    Thanks for the thoughtful response. Funny you should mention Apollo 13, its one of my favorite movies, and I think its likely to be a favorite of many, many other engineers as well. Its a great story where the engineers save the day!

    We'll be working on the pre-configuration feature in the coming weeks as we get 9.2 in shape for release, we'll try to incorporate your suggestions. The way it will work is that the pre-configuration values will be applied upon installation, and the group path will be applied as soon as RMS registration can occur. This means the pre-configuration values will be replaced with the actual policy from SEC. That seems normal and rational, and likely not unexpected by anyone.

    The item about RMS re-configuration has come up recently as well, and we likely won't be able to slip it into the 9.2 stream (its not as simple of a change due to how its currently working) it will get into the software at some point.

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    Hello Christian,

    Thanks for the thoughtful response. Funny you should mention Apollo 13, its one of my favorite movies, and I think its likely to be a favorite of many, many other engineers as well. Its a great story where the engineers save the day!

    We'll be working on the pre-configuration feature in the coming weeks as we get 9.2 in shape for release, we'll try to incorporate your suggestions. The way it will work is that the pre-configuration values will be applied upon installation, and the group path will be applied as soon as RMS registration can occur. This means the pre-configuration values will be replaced with the actual policy from SEC. That seems normal and rational, and likely not unexpected by anyone.

    The item about RMS re-configuration has come up recently as well, and we likely won't be able to slip it into the 9.2 stream (its not as simple of a change due to how its currently working) it will get into the software at some point.

    :53203
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