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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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    bobcook wrote:
    test12234 wrote:

    I've seen it take anywhere from 10to15 minutes every time I bothered to time it.. and I have over 5000 assets. Anyway the lack of functionality in the manged isntaller is kind of a bummer..next you'll say that the mac & windows agent are going to be completely cloud based and everything else will /no longer be developed.

    Due to changes coming from Apple in Mac OS X 10.9.5 and 10.10 we are forced to change the deployment workflow for all of our endpoints (managed and un-managed, Cloud and on-premise, and Home Edition). Because of these changes by Apple we will no longer use the MPKG format for the on-premise installer starting in 9.2, when it comes to the Preview line. The existing 9.1 deployment packages will remain unchanged for the Recommended line. See KBA 121327 for the full story.

    We've done a tremendous amount of engineering to continue supporting the legacy MPKG format this long, but this change from Apple has finally forced us to change.

    I mention it in this thread because that change will also make it possible for us to properly support a pre-configured installer app for update and on-access settings. The existing KBAs will be updated when 9.2 is published.

    And just to be super super clear, we have no plans to retire the on-premise managed agents.

    Hopefully you'll still post something here when that time comes so the new process can be looked at as I at least am still waiting and I'm checking this thread for updates.

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    bobcook wrote:
    test12234 wrote:

    I've seen it take anywhere from 10to15 minutes every time I bothered to time it.. and I have over 5000 assets. Anyway the lack of functionality in the manged isntaller is kind of a bummer..next you'll say that the mac & windows agent are going to be completely cloud based and everything else will /no longer be developed.

    Due to changes coming from Apple in Mac OS X 10.9.5 and 10.10 we are forced to change the deployment workflow for all of our endpoints (managed and un-managed, Cloud and on-premise, and Home Edition). Because of these changes by Apple we will no longer use the MPKG format for the on-premise installer starting in 9.2, when it comes to the Preview line. The existing 9.1 deployment packages will remain unchanged for the Recommended line. See KBA 121327 for the full story.

    We've done a tremendous amount of engineering to continue supporting the legacy MPKG format this long, but this change from Apple has finally forced us to change.

    I mention it in this thread because that change will also make it possible for us to properly support a pre-configured installer app for update and on-access settings. The existing KBAs will be updated when 9.2 is published.

    And just to be super super clear, we have no plans to retire the on-premise managed agents.

    Hopefully you'll still post something here when that time comes so the new process can be looked at as I at least am still waiting and I'm checking this thread for updates.

    :53161
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