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Afternoon all,

Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place so here goes

We've recently acquired support for a site running 200ish XP PCs with 8 Windows servers (1 x 2008, 6 x 2003, 1 x 2000)

They are currently running Enterprise console 3.1.0.2476  on one of the 32-bit Server 2003 boxes

The client machines are running Anti-virus 7.6.16

They are intending to upgrade to Endpoint and have asked me to calculate the expected install time

(and also how long a piece of string is!!! :-) )

My previous experience with Sophos involved a completely fresh install and in that instance a good 30% of the PC's refused to install from the console and I had to go round and manually install

Therefore if anyone has performed a similar upgrade and can give me some idea and pointers I would be most grateful

Cheers

Ben

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    Hello Ben,

    to answer the second question first - in my experience the length of a string is determined by the distance from one end to the other when it's stretched.

    Ok - if they have only one updating policy in place install and SEC migration takes less than a day (including the recommended backup). Updating the clients is just assigning the new policies to the groups (not necessarily all groups at once and it can be done "during the day"). Our domain contains 250+ clients and I had almost no problems - reprotected a handful or so from the console (either they did no report correctly to the console or they had minor issues which I did not investigate), Protect Computers worked on all of them.   

    If they have several updating policies then migration to SUM will need lots of space. The domain is only a small part of our network. The "rest" (2000+ clients) has it's own server and an additional SUM. By hindsight I'd "clone" the current server, isolate it from the LAN (as far as this is possible) and rehearse the migration on it.

    Migration is a popular topic in this forum, rummage around a little.

    Christian

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