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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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    Meat wrote:

    Hi Bob,

    Thanks for the useful info. :)

    Of course (and forgive me if I overlooked this somewhere) I need to deploy this silently. As it stands now, my normal deployment tool will install any Apple Package format installer silently, but I have to call the Sophos installer via script, which is launching the GUI Sophos install for the currently logged in user. Is there a silent flag?

    You probably want to have a look at KBA 14179: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/14179.aspx

    Hope that helps, let me know if you find the article clear enough. Its an article with lots of poor ratings but not a lot of constructive feedback about what needs improvement.

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    Meat wrote:

    Hi Bob,

    Thanks for the useful info. :)

    Of course (and forgive me if I overlooked this somewhere) I need to deploy this silently. As it stands now, my normal deployment tool will install any Apple Package format installer silently, but I have to call the Sophos installer via script, which is launching the GUI Sophos install for the currently logged in user. Is there a silent flag?

    You probably want to have a look at KBA 14179: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/14179.aspx

    Hope that helps, let me know if you find the article clear enough. Its an article with lots of poor ratings but not a lot of constructive feedback about what needs improvement.

    :54231
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