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Sophos AutoUpdate Failure

Hello,

This is my first post, so please don't pick on me!

My side job at university requires me to look after several computers in class rooms, designed to mainly play back videos and support presentations.

Now while the job itself is usually not that challenging, I am somehow confronted with a more serious problem at the moment: Every computer is equipped with Sophos EndPoint Security System (or whatever it is called) and HDGuard. Two computers specifically have issues with Sophos:

Firstly, the "HiWI-PC", which refuses to update Sophos. It tells me, that Sophos cannot be auto updated. The weird thing is, that this happened exactly after updating Windows, there haven't been any problems right before the Windows updates. Because there's HDGuard on every PC, which resets the computer to a previously saved state after each reboot, it's necessary to have an update round every once in a while. Sophos itself is unaffected by HDGuard though, as I believe.

Secondly, the computer in room 21, which has the same problem, maybe a little bit worse: No auto update and it's impossible to get to the Sophos Endpoint Main Window (I am not sure how to call that window, you get whenever you right click on the icon in the right part of the task bar). Basically, that computer is completely unprotected, which is unacceptable.

I did some research on the error in room 21 and I have read something about problems with rights. After I have given more general rights to every user, the autoupdate lasted longer and actually created some directories, but the outcome was the same: It wasn't able to auto update. I have attached the logs here.

I am grateful for every hint, that might solve the problem.


Best regards!

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  • Hello again,

    Sorry, to bother you people again, but unfortunately, my problem has changed a little bit. The ominous computer in Room 21  decided to crash Sophos completely, it seems to be worse than last time, where it at least only failed at AutoUpdating after showing some random windows with progress bars.

    Well, anyway, I have got another log now, but it actually in German. The particular line, which seems to be interesting for you, would be:

    18.08.2014,17:36:59,Informationen,Information 25010. Beim Starten der spezifischen Aktion 'AddISContentIndexScope' ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Bitte wenden Sie sich an Ihren Support.,

    Rough translation: Error while trying the action "AddISContentIndexScope". Please contact customer support.

    Does anybody have any idea, how to fix this? I have no idea, what to do, also that "process monitor program" didn't help, since the problem has shifted from that Windows Installer to Sophos.

    Best Regards!

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  • Hello PF,

    guess it's failing to set the exclusion for the Cache folder in the Indexing Service. Please see Warning 25010 or Error 25010 ... and Diagnosing problems with updates .... The latter suggests to contact Support for all custom actions except 'Move Folders'. Dunno how AddISContentIndexScope can fail so you might have to do just that if checking the indexing service doesn't give any insight.  

    Christian

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