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SEC 5.2.1 and Sophos for MAC OS X Preview (9.0.3)

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Decided to give the Preview of Anti-Virus for Mac OS X, version 9.0.3 a try. Chose an old MacBook (running 10.4) as guinea pig. After assigning the alternate policy updating failed with a rather vacuous Error: Could not update Sophos-Anti-Virus at .... Update failed. No indication of the nature or the error and surprisingly no indication of the update location used. 

Now, the error was not unexpected - 9.0.x requires MAC OS X 10.6 minimum but perhaps a more meaningful message could be issued. Anyway I checked the update location and found that it named ESCOSXL as source folder - obviously indicating the changed requirements (though I can't figure out what the L stands for :smileyhappy:).

Admittedly pre-10.6 versions should be rare by now (I've found two 10.5 installations still in use out of about 100). But the folder name change will affect unmanaged or occasionally off-site clients (yes, Cloud is the answer :smileywink:). I've found no reference though (I'd have expected this in the Release Notes). Even as it is Preview you should be required to discover this important information on your own.

Christian   

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    Forgive me for slightly butting in here but I was given this thread to view as a possibly solution to my delima as well.  (http://community.sophos.com/t5/Sophos-EndUser-Protection/Custom-Standalone-Mac-Installer/td-p/44747.)

    After reading through this a bit it sounds like the possibility of creating a customized stand-alone installer will be available with the 9.0.5 release for the Mac now that SUM is gone?  Is that correct?

    We had previously been using SUM to create both "managed" and "unmanaged" installers for our users depending on the needs and use of the computer.  The "managed" version is fine because we can use the .mpkg file from the proper CID directory basically as the installer.  However, we have no way of creating a customized "unmanged" installer now.  This install would only report to Sophos for updates (with no secondary) and contain a few customized settings regarding options, etc.

    If it's true that 9.0.5 will bring back some of this fuctionality can you tell me when this will be available and also the steps necessary for me to create the installer?

    Any help is appreciated.

    :44789
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    Forgive me for slightly butting in here but I was given this thread to view as a possibly solution to my delima as well.  (http://community.sophos.com/t5/Sophos-EndUser-Protection/Custom-Standalone-Mac-Installer/td-p/44747.)

    After reading through this a bit it sounds like the possibility of creating a customized stand-alone installer will be available with the 9.0.5 release for the Mac now that SUM is gone?  Is that correct?

    We had previously been using SUM to create both "managed" and "unmanaged" installers for our users depending on the needs and use of the computer.  The "managed" version is fine because we can use the .mpkg file from the proper CID directory basically as the installer.  However, we have no way of creating a customized "unmanged" installer now.  This install would only report to Sophos for updates (with no secondary) and contain a few customized settings regarding options, etc.

    If it's true that 9.0.5 will bring back some of this fuctionality can you tell me when this will be available and also the steps necessary for me to create the installer?

    Any help is appreciated.

    :44789
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