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Roaming Laptop Options?

Leddra2k

Hi all,

Just wondering what Sophos offer when it comes to business laptop users that roam from site to site and there laptop requires virus definitions update - is there a solution where the client is intelligent enough (example assigned an IP address from an office) that the client knows to go to the nearest parent server for its updates so its does pull virus definitions across the WAN?

For example - we will have a dedicated server/PC on small, medium and large sites that the clients could go to local to pull down the virus definitions to save WAN performance being reduced.

Cheers,

Anthony

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    Hi Anthony,

    Solution to your problem can be vary simple if you have DHCP / DNS server on each location.

    In this case just create DNS record on each location (sophos.myorg.local) pointing to Sophos update server for this location. In update profile set "sophos.myorg.local" as primary location and here you have it. As users roam they will get different DNS server for each location (via DHCP) and this DNS will point them to local update server.

    How you will sync the CIDs this is something different but I presume server on each location will populate CIDs from your central server.

    Igor

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    Hi Anthony,

    Solution to your problem can be vary simple if you have DHCP / DNS server on each location.

    In this case just create DNS record on each location (sophos.myorg.local) pointing to Sophos update server for this location. In update profile set "sophos.myorg.local" as primary location and here you have it. As users roam they will get different DNS server for each location (via DHCP) and this DNS will point them to local update server.

    How you will sync the CIDs this is something different but I presume server on each location will populate CIDs from your central server.

    Igor

    :433
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