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Extended Anti-Virus support for Windows XP/2003

I'm under the understanding that these subscriptions are only for specific updates that Sophos may release for Windows XP and Server 2003. These machines will still receive virus definition updates as per normal without being applied to a group / update policy / subscription for Windows XP & Server 2003 extended support.

Is this true? We have remote sites which all have there own group, and update policy, and use the "Recommended" subscription. These remote sites use there own update managers as well.

Most of the remote sites have some XP and Server 2003 machines, if I was to create one group for the XP machines, then these machines won't be using there designated update manager.

I'm not sure how to proceed, creating a group for every site, we have over 60 might be a bit messy, and would add a lot more groups and update policies.

Any advice would be appreciated.

 



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  • Hello!

    With version 10.8.2 new "feature" was released: 

     

    Version 10.8.2 VE3.73.0

    New features:

    Sophos Anti-Virus installations on Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server machines will not update to this version and will no longer receive data updates.

     

    Regards

  • Hello all,

    there seems to be a killswitch that is triggered when an XP/2003 endpoint attempts to upgrade to 10.8.2. After that no further updates are possible even if you try to update it from a 10.8.1 CID.

    Christian