Enterprise Console: updating computers that are not always on the network

Where computers are not always on the network, e.g. laptops that are sometimes used away from the office, you can configure them to update from an alternative source when they are away.

What to do

The alternative source can be an updates folder on a website maintained by your company, or it can be a Sophos website.

1. In Enterprise Console, select the group that contains the computers you want to protect.
2. On the toolbar, click 'Updating policy'.
3. In the 'Set updating policy for computers in the ... group' dialog, select an operating system used by computers in that group, e.g. Windows 2000/2003/XP.
4. Click 'Configure'.
5. Click the 'Secondary server' tab.
6. Enter the Address (UNC path or web address) from which Sophos Anti-Virus will fetch updates if the Primary server cannot be contacted.
7. If necessary, enter the User name and Password for an account that
   • can log on to the computers in the group
   • has read access to (can browse to) the secondary server location.
8. If the User name needs to be qualified to indicate the domain, use the form domain\username.

If you access the internet via a proxy server:

1. Click 'Proxy details'.
2. In the 'Proxy details' dialog box, select 'Access the server via a proxy'.
3. Enter the proxy server Address and Port number.
4. Enter a User name and Password that give access to the proxy server.
5. If the user name needs to be qualified to indicate the domain, use the form domain\username.
6. Click OK.