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Sophos AD sync worth it?

Hey so i just came into a new environment. They use sophos central with agents on the computers.

They have users in the central management, although possibly not all of them.

Just wondering what the benefits are of configuring sophos central AD sync. What do i get from it specifically? I have always had it installed in our old environment, so i am not sure what difference it makes. Just adds AD users to the list of users? does it do anything else when i hit sync on it? And what benefits do i get from doing this? let me know please. thanks.

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0 GlennSen over 3 years ago

Hi,

To further understand the function and it's advantage of the said feature we'll be sharing you this documentation that explains about AD sync functions.

Glenn ArchieSeñas (GlennSen)

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0 needsomesophoshelp over 3 years ago in reply to GlennSen

sure but that doesnt really explain anything in any detail whatsoever.

"The utility works as follows. It synchronizes active users and user groups."

but WHY am i doing that. Since not having it synced, it will pick up the user from the machine anyway. So whats the point of it?
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0 needsomesophoshelp over 3 years ago in reply to GlennSen

sure but that doesnt really explain anything in any detail whatsoever.

"The utility works as follows. It synchronizes active users and user groups."

but WHY am i doing that. Since not having it synced, it will pick up the user from the machine anyway. So whats the point of it?
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0 FormerMember over 3 years ago in reply to needsomesophoshelp

It's if you want things sorted and organized into your AD groups - mostly.

You can also pre-assign users into specific policies if you need to.

It isn't a required element - you can manually manage the policies.

If you don't have a bunch of different policy requirements for different groups of users then you can just apply on blanket policy and that will work.
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0 RaveNet over 3 years ago in reply to FormerMember

It's also useful if you implement Phish Threat as it pre-fills all user data and email address for you. It's worth it even to run a trial of phish threat and gauge if you should invest in some user training and acquire phish threat itself. it's not even that difficult to setup

But yes as already mentioned, by others, if you are just applying single blanket policies across all workstations / users then there is no other need for sophos ad sync.
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