Suppressing alert about azure code signing

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Hey there, 
 
 For the last few months, we have been getting lots of alerts that say the following: 
 
 "Device failed to update because it does not support Azure Code Signing. See knowledge base article" 
 
 As i understand it, sophos changed something and no longer supports older versions of windows 10. That's fine i guess, i can't stop you from breaking backwards compatibility, but we have no system centre or other way to update hundreds of windows 10 PCs enmasse, which might be running a few years old version of windows 10. Nor do i really want to, just because sophos is bitching about it. 
 
 My question, can i somehow suppress these warnings? or categorize them as LOW? I took a look in "alert settings" but the exclusion rule says to configure from the alerts page, but i cant see any way to configure the level of alert it is from there. I can see the list of alerts, but cant see where i would categorize them as high, medium, or low. 
 If you know how to set items to be different levels of alert, let me know please! 
 thanks

Qoosh · Answer

Hi needsomesophoshelp , 
 Thanks for reaching out to the Sophos Community Forum. 
 Azure Code Signing is a requirement Microsoft has enforced for all Antivirus vendors. This helps ensure the software installed on your devices can be trusted and has not been tampered with. 
 If you need to install Sophos onto a device that does not comply with ACS requirements, it's possible to do so using the following command line. - SophosSetup.exe --bypassacscheck 
 You can also specify that an earlier software package be applied to your devices which does not include the ACS changes. This will prevent the alerts from being generated in Sophos Central and is mentioned in the following link. - I need time to apply the Windows Security Updates, is there an available option? 
 This option will only work temporarily to allow you time to update your environment. 
 It is possible to stop emails from being generated for certain alerts, but it is not possible to alter the severity of each alert in Sophos Central.

Suppressing alert about azure code signing

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