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VERY Disappointed with Support

I want to share some deep seeded frustration here. We are a fairly new partner and honestly up until this weekend we were very excited about rolling out Sophos UTM / End Point Prot. to a number of existing clients. We purchased a 6 hours block of Pro Support as I understand should be invaluable for the initial setup/conf/implemention. We booked 2 hours a few days prior to upgrading our firewall. Pro Support were supposed to migrate all the rules from our ASA and configuration so the transition went smoothly. It was far from it. Saturday afternoon we started our deployment. Only 1 of 3 Site to Site VPN Links worked and we scratched and clawed to get a second one working. However, the second one would connect then drop packets. 1 was fine which was connected to a WatchGuard UTM and the one dropping connection was an ASA 5512. Next we noticed none of the SSL or Anyconnect VPN was setup in the XG and Support was absolutely useless. I hate to be so negative but we are talking very junior. They said they only deal with "Break Fix" not Configuration and Troubleshooting. "You will need to speak to Pro Support for that", which are clearly unavailable unless you schedule time in advance. Third issue was our subscription Lic. for our XG did not work so we were unable to lic. any of the modules which of course have pre-defined policies etc etc .... We phoned support, they opened a case with customer care. We heard nothing for 7 hours. I phoned back and the next agent said Customer Care are not available on weekends. I asked to please speak to an on duty supervisor and the agent replied "Sorry, we don't have managers available" Are you kidding me? So if someone has a Lic. issue you cannot get it dealt with? I also emailed licensingquieries@sophos.com or whatever the address was. Nada. No response. I could go on but I think you get my point... A lot of this could have been avoided. 

I really hope this is heard by Sophos management and I am contacted.

Thanks for listening.

 

 



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  • I hate to say it, but I have had similar experiences with Sophos Support in the past few years.   I have also on occassion had extremely knowledgeable and extremely helpful people work with me to solve problems.  Unfortunately, it's a bit of a toss-up as to what kind of experience you get with any particular issue.

    I'm curious if you got things sorted out and if Sophos was able to provide proper support after you contacted the person who replied to this thread.  Feel free to PM me if you want to compare notes.

  • We purchased 3 year premium support and I'm not exactly happy with it. We've used them once and that was for an issue that we just couldn't get to work and still isn't resolved.

    It took me 3 months of emails just to get through level 1. Sophos finally got back to me with a very knowledgeable guy who traced it down to an issue with the UTM which needs a firmware update to resolve.

    Not a good experience by any imagination and I think Sophos need to get on top of it and fairly fast as it could cost them some serious bucks in the long run.

    I get asked on a regular basis on what we use and why and I can't honestly recommend them for support at the moment which is fairly high on some of our partners priorities.

    The product is good and can be improved but it's being let down by support so hopefully they get better in this area. Prior to renewing in 2019, we will be testing this.

  • The ONLY advantage of Premium over Standard Support is that you get to open your own break/fix tickets with Sophos, allowing you to bypass your reseller. Not ONE of my clients does that.

    Sophos does offer a service that corresponds to what you expect.  Enhanced Support Plus starts at under US$5,500/yr for a 3-year contract for under 500 users.

    I agree that the word "Premium" creates false expectations.  I would rename it "Direct" or something more descriptive instead of letting customers believe that they were getting something else.

    Cheers - Bob

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  • The ONLY advantage of Premium over Standard Support is that you get to open your own break/fix tickets with Sophos, allowing you to bypass your reseller. Not ONE of my clients does that.

    Sophos does offer a service that corresponds to what you expect.  Enhanced Support Plus starts at under US$5,500/yr for a 3-year contract for under 500 users.

    I agree that the word "Premium" creates false expectations.  I would rename it "Direct" or something more descriptive instead of letting customers believe that they were getting something else.

    Cheers - Bob

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  • Yep Bob, the word premium does have a premium sort of meaning and can easily be misconstrued.

    Even opening tickets in this way was very disappointing for me as I could tell what level of support I was stuck at.

    On the plus side, I could instantly tell the minute this had been escalated and I was speaking to a knowledgeable guy.

    It just took a lot longer than I would have liked and still isn't resolved as it needs a change in their firmware.

    Maybe they should start paying you as you certainly offer a far faster responding service from which they benefit!