How can we protect and manage Windows Home OS machines from Enterprise console (in Domain)

Question

Hi,

We have Windows domain environment and installed Sophos Enterprise console on one of the member server. We have Windows laptops which have Windows home editions and we would like to protect and manage those Home editions from enterprise console.

We have done the following procedure to achieve this but still getting error i.e. either dont have administrator permissions on the client machine

1. Created same local admin user account in both the server and client machines

2. Given permissions to Everyone on UNC path folder

3. Started the services Task schedular, Remote registry and Windows installer on the client machine

4. While doing Protect computer from the Enterprise console, providing local admin account of the client machine

But still getting the dont have administartor permissions on the client machine,

Anyone please help me on this issue.

Regards,

Yugandhar

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QC · Accepted Answer

Hello Yugandhar, 
 location for installer package 
 an installer package doesn't reside in the CID, put it somewhere else from where it can be downloaded (not recommended but with Everyone permissions on the SophosUpdate share you could put it there (say ...\SophosUpdate\Packages\SAVWinHome.exe ). 
 whatever policies we apply 
 If you use the Deployment Packager you could build the package like this: 
 
 For the -G in Additional setup parameters please see Command line parameters used by Setup.exe . 
 It would then work like this: An administrator downloads and runs the SAVWinHome.exe which installs AutoUpdate and RMS. RMS will then fetch the updating policy, AutoUpdate will update from there (and install the remaining components) then the other applicable policies will be fetched. 
 HTH 
 Christian 
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Yugandhar · Answer

After login to the client machine with created user account and disabled the UAC, we are able to protect the computer from the Enterprise console and policies also able to applying successfully.

Thank you very much for your support.

Regards,

Yugandhar.