manage program update of Security Agent during working time

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Hello, 
 yesterday some ouf our Sophos Central Clients received program updates whilst working on the computer. This resulted in slow performance and a loss of Security Heartbeat to the firewall when the Heartbeat Service restarted. The restart of the Service is quick but the reconnection of the Heartbeat with the firewall takes over a minute. This causes applications to crash or interruption of active web meetings. 
 Is there a way to manage this behaviour? 
 We want automated installation and I don't want to push updates manually. But there should be some warning like "your Sophos Software needs update, install now or later" like 15 minutes, 1 hour and so on. 
 Any way to achieve this? 
 At least there should be a possibility to select a general time frame that an administrator can create for program upgrades. So for example: only install updates from 12 until 1pm. Missted schedule: install after next reboot. 
 Possible? 
 
 Thanks.

jak · Accepted Answer

What about the option under the Update Management policy: 
 Scheduled Updates 
 Set the day and time when you want product updates to become available for computers. Remember: if they aren't on, they won&rsquo;t get the update until the next time they start. Note: This doesn't affect security updates, such as identities used to protect you against new threats.

manage program update of Security Agent during working time

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