SGN 8 Enterprise GPO setup process

Question

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!

MichaelMcLannahan · Accepted Answer

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