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SGN 8 Enterprise GPO setup process

Torrey Hopkins

Hi All,

 

I'm new to the community and need a little help with properly setting up SGN 8 Enterprise GPO's for silent install. I've looked through many threads of the same/similar topic but all are not related SGN 8 or have no response/solution. I'd greatly appreciate if someone from Sophos can reply or assist as I convinced my Director to move forward with the product and we have a large deployment that needs to be done by end of May.

 

Thank you in advance for your time & assistance in this matter.

Have a great day! 



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  • +1

    V7 doesn't differ from V8 much to be honest - you can script it in the same way.

     

    There's three parts to install for each client -

    1 - Preinstall for the client (this contains the dependancies like .net framework)

    2 - The main client. This can be found in the extracted files within your server. It's called SGNClient. This has the main switches you'll need to set

    3 - The configuration files. You need to produce these on your server as they contain your certs and server names/paths for the client to connect to.

     

    We do ours with an customised installer and not silently, but it does pull the MSI's and run them silently behind a pretty GUI telling the user what it's doing.

     

    This is Sophos's example taken from the V7 guide and we've used something very similar (We're running V8 like yourself)

     

    https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/documentation/sgn_7_ig_eng_installation.pdf?la=en 

     

    Page 62

     

    msiexec /i F:\Software\SGxClientPreinstall.msi /qn /log I:\Temp\SGxClientPreinstall.log
    msiexec /i F:\Software\SGNClient.msi /qn /log I:\Temp\SGNClient.log ADDLOCAL=Client,CredentialProvider,BaseEncryption,SectorBasedEncryption,FileShare Installdir=C:\Program Files\Sophos\SafeGuard Enterprise
    msiexec /i F:\Software\SGNConfig_managed.msi /qn /log I:\Temp\SGNConfig_managed.log

     

     

    That aside you can see how similar it is in V8 too!

     

    https://docs.sophos.com/esg/sgn/8-0/admin/win/en-us/webhelp/index.htm#concepts/ClientInstallCentralADDLOCAL_sampleDE.htm

     

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  • +1

    V7 doesn't differ from V8 much to be honest - you can script it in the same way.

     

    There's three parts to install for each client -

    1 - Preinstall for the client (this contains the dependancies like .net framework)

    2 - The main client. This can be found in the extracted files within your server. It's called SGNClient. This has the main switches you'll need to set

    3 - The configuration files. You need to produce these on your server as they contain your certs and server names/paths for the client to connect to.

     

    We do ours with an customised installer and not silently, but it does pull the MSI's and run them silently behind a pretty GUI telling the user what it's doing.

     

    This is Sophos's example taken from the V7 guide and we've used something very similar (We're running V8 like yourself)

     

    https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/PDFs/documentation/sgn_7_ig_eng_installation.pdf?la=en 

     

    Page 62

     

    msiexec /i F:\Software\SGxClientPreinstall.msi /qn /log I:\Temp\SGxClientPreinstall.log
    msiexec /i F:\Software\SGNClient.msi /qn /log I:\Temp\SGNClient.log ADDLOCAL=Client,CredentialProvider,BaseEncryption,SectorBasedEncryption,FileShare Installdir=C:\Program Files\Sophos\SafeGuard Enterprise
    msiexec /i F:\Software\SGNConfig_managed.msi /qn /log I:\Temp\SGNConfig_managed.log

     

     

    That aside you can see how similar it is in V8 too!

     

    https://docs.sophos.com/esg/sgn/8-0/admin/win/en-us/webhelp/index.htm#concepts/ClientInstallCentralADDLOCAL_sampleDE.htm

     

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