Creating a 'Full' Sophos Cloud Windows installer to minimize initial bandwidth utilization - NO LONGER SUPPORTED!

Question

We just purchased Sophos Central last week with several hundred seats for endpoint and intercept X. I am really pleased with the product however, last Monday there was documentation on how to create a "FULL" installer to prevent hundreds of clients simultaneously downloading the ~250MB installer, unfortunately by last Friday when I purchased the product and went to create the installer this feature was no longer available and all documentation pointing the the following KB article was pulled offline. 
 https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/121318 
 Anyone have any ideas on how to proceed besides install on a handful of clients at a time or paying a couple thousand dollars for professional support? 
 I'm sure I am not alone as any enterprise installation will be facing the same situation, unless you are fine with pumping a 100GB down your network lol. 
 Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! 
 
 Charlie

jak · Accepted Answer

Which installer are you running? The newer SophosSetup.exe or SophosInstall.exe? Details on the new SophosSetup.exe are here: https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/127045 . If you look at the log file for the new installer, e.g. C:\ProgramData\Sophos\CloudInstaller\Logs\SophosCloudInstaller_20180120_115125.log In my log I see: "2018-01-20T11:51:37.5112880Z INFO : No update caches configured" I was helping in this thread: https://community.sophos.com/products/sophos-central/f/sophos-central/99913/sophos-endpoint-protection-fails-with-checksum-error You can see reference to it using the update cache. If you have an update cache running, maybe run SohosSetup.exe and check the above log to see if it finds your update cache. Regards, 
 Jak

bazcurtis · Answer

The new installer will use the Update Cache during the install. The old installer only used the cache once the Endpoint was installed. If you tail the installer log you can watch it choose the Update Cache.

Jeewan Wajiranga · Answer

I have solution and i tested it works for me. 
 
 Step 1: 
 
 Install your choice (CEA or CEA + CIX) on one machine using SophosSetup.exe and let installation complete successfully. 
 
 Step 2:

CEA :
 
 On machine where Sophos Central Endpoint Advanced and Sophos Central Intercept X is properly installed, go to : 
 C:\ProgramData\Sophos\AutoUpdate\data\warehouse\ <- This should be about 400 Mb in size. 
 Copy all the content (Ctrl + A) and paste it in below path on NEW MACHINE where you want to install Sophos. You will have to create below path manually : 
 C:\ProgramData\Sophos\CloudInstaller\AutoUpdatePreparation\data\Warehouse\

CEA + CIX :
 
 On machine where Sophos Central Endpoint Advanced and Sophos Central Intercept X is properly installed, go to : 
 C:\ProgramData\Sophos\AutoUpdate\data\warehouse\ <- This should be about 400 Mb in size. 
 Copy all the content (Ctrl + A) and paste it in below path on NEW MACHINE where you want to install Sophos. You will have to create below path manually : 
 C:\ProgramData\Sophos\CloudInstaller\AutoUpdatePreparation\data\Warehouse\ 
 On installed machine, go to : 
 C:\ProgramData\HitmanPro.Alert\

Copy all the content (Ctrl + A) and paste it in below path on NEW MACHINE where you want to install Sophos. You will have to create below path manually : 
 C:\ProgramData\Sophos\CloudInstaller\AutoUpdatePreparation\Cache\decoded\ 
 
 Step 3: 
 
 Once above paths have been created and respective content copied to it, run installer SophosSetup.exe. 
 If everything goes correctly, SophosInstaller will not download 400+ Mb data from Central, it will only download any new signatures that it finds and other folders and services will be created. 
 
 If it works fine, complete installation should be finished in 5 minutes . 
 
 Note : All folder names are case sensitive. Try and copy-paste rather than manually typing. If there is any typo error offline installation will not work.