SOPHOS CLIENT ENDPOINT DEPLOYMENT

Hello Paul,

from the central management console
are you referring to Sophos Central and the Central Admin console or the on-premise SEC? For the former there exists AFAIK no method to do it from the console, installers can be scripted though. For the latter Protect Computers will work on a group of endpoints.

Christian 

Hello Paul,

the Central deployment methods article links to Sophos Central: Methods for automating the deployment ... with examples for AD/GPO and SCCM.
As said it's not possible from Central Admin - you wouldn't want that some service in the cloud can contact your computers and install software on them "from te Internet". Thus the initial is necessarily local. What particular method you use to run the script or the .exe is up to you.

Christian

Hi Christian

thanks again but there seems to be confusion with the nature of my request. We are looking to deploy the EXE per ENDPOINT group such as the MATHS or HUMANITIES department group within the Cloud Central console where nowhere in the Sophos online Technical guides does it mention these groups  .There is discussion of Group Policy but we want Sophos Console Groups on a departmental etc level to push the EXE to 

I hope this makes more sense 

Paul

Hi Christian

thanks again but there seems to be confusion with the nature of my request. We are looking to deploy the EXE per ENDPOINT group such as the MATHS or HUMANITIES department group within the Cloud Central console where nowhere in the Sophos online Technical guides does it mention these groups  .There is discussion of Group Policy but we want Sophos Console Groups on a departmental etc level to push the EXE to 

I hope this makes more sense 

Paul

Hello Paul,

I see. Do I now understand you correctly you have set up groups in Central Admin using AD synchronization? An now you want to protect the devices in these groups? Or where did these department groups come from?

Christian

no we have created the  groups manually  on the central console and we want to send an EXE file manually to anyone , and specify the GROUP name as part of the deployment 

Hello Paul,

thanks, it is very clear now.
I wasn't aware that you can now "pre-select" the group with the Central installer (like you can with the on-premise setup.exe) therefore I didn't think of this possibility. Ii seems this hasn't changed though as the article on SophosInstall.exe suggests. Perhaps @jak who is unlike me familiar with Central has something up his sleeves.

Christian

Thanks for that reply

There isn't such an option in the Sophos central to pre-select  the group name  with the central installer , which is why we have made this forum Posting . We just need guidance in how to specify the group name prior to deployment of the EXE

Regards