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Hi all I'm new to the forum so please bear with me. Basically before i joined the company we had version 3 of Sophos PureMessage installed, along with the Enterprise Console and the AV solution. However this expired some time ago and we have been…

Hi everyone. By now our company is using TMG as a primary solution and a standalone Sophos as a dummy VPN proxy to give access for non domain computers to specific internal resources. But as the time goes the TMG show itself badly as a solution for big…

Task scheduler in SSG console was always successful but has stopped running for weeks now. Meanwhile the SafeGuard(R) Scheduler Service is always running. Anyone know why? Running SSG 7.0

Hello all. I'm a newb here. Just starting to roll out Endpoint Security to our users, replacing Kaspersky. We run Sophos UTM at our site, on which we've established our web control policies, exceptions, etc. I've configured our Enterprise Console Web…

Hi, We have an AD Password Group Policy that notifies the user 14 days before their AD password expires. This doesn't happen on computers that have Safeguard 5.61 installed and POA activated, but works fine on non-Safeguard computer receiving the…

Hi all, i have to migrade a customer from UTM Endpoint Protection to the good old Enpoint Standard with EC ... EP 10.3 EC: 5.3.0 Here is what i've done yet: 1- Install EC und configure updates etc. (GPO, FW def and stuff which is important…

Currently, we do not use the SSO features for Sophos Safegaurd and wish to maintain separate credentials. However, all users need to manually change the drop-down option on the POA screen to use POA rather than the Windows domain. It will assist the end…

One of my users decided she didn't want to return her laptop when she quit. Of course I have disabled her AD account, etc., but I am wondering if there is a way to remotely lock her machine immediately the way it automatically locks after two weeks of…

We are new to SafeGuard and have 4 admins with the admin console installed. When one of them changes their password based on our AD policy, the password is not updated in SafeGuard admin console. It only accepts that last password. How can we update this…

Even though it is documented here https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/122249.aspx as of version 9.8.5 linux client you are unable to pass the AD ( Active directory ) domain. The command comes back with incorrect usage message. eg…

There is a FEATURE that the OS is obtained from the AD properties of the host. If you have machines that change OS but not name SEC can get confused about what OS they are. Seems like sophos is using the "operatingSystem" attribute in AD to populate…