Article: Sophos Anti-Virus version 7: End of life

[EduTech]

You can view the page at http://www.edugeek.net/content.php?r=226-Sophos-Anti-Virus-version-7-End-of-life

[SYSMAN_MK]

Here is the reg setting to disable the message on clients in the meantime.

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sophos\SAVService\Application]
"DisableEndOfLifeMessaging"=dword:00000001

[round2it]

Here is the reg setting to disable the message on clients in the meantime.

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sophos\SAVService\Application]
"DisableEndOfLifeMessaging"=dword:00000001

 

what is the easiest way to push this setting out?

an example of a startup script would be great

 

or can it be done via gpo?

 

any help would be great

[PcDude]

what is the easiest way to push this setting out?

an example of a startup script would be great

 

or can it be done via gpo?

 

any help would be great

 

The article mentions how to push out the change to all clients using the share that they update from. That may be the easiest way.

Sophos Anti-Virus version 7: End of life

[numericspark]

I have created an adm file to do this through group policy, just copy and paste the below into notepad and save as a .adm

 

CLASS MACHINE

 

CATEGORY "Sophos"

 

POLICY "Disable Sophos Expiry Msg"

 

KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Sophos\SAVService\Application"

EXPLAIN "This policy disables the expiration of sophos 7 messages"

VALUENAME "DisableEndOfLifeMessaging"

VALUEON NUMERIC 1

VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0

 

END POLICY

 

END CATEGORY

[browolf]

that adm didn't work for me. I used reg2adm to remake it and got this instead, which does work:

 

CLASS MACHINE

CATEGORY SOFTWARE\Sophos\SAVService

POLICY Application

KEYNAME SOFTWARE\Sophos\SAVService\Application

PART DisableEndOfLifeMessaging NUMERIC

VALUENAME "DisableEndOfLifeMessaging"

END PART

END POLICY

END CATEGORY

[TechSupp]

Sorry if this is a bit of a simpletons question but what do I do with the adm file in AD. At home at moment so cant have a look. Presume I just import it from the File menu and it then affects all users or do I have to do it with individual GPO's?

[round2it]

i just ran the reg setting to imported with a startup script seems to have worked no messages been displayed.

[TechSupp]

How did you run the reg setting with a startup script, any chance of a copy of the script?

[themightymrp]

Example script if the above is saved as sophosmsg.reg

 

regedit /s \\domain\netlogon\sophosmsg.reg

 

 

Easy as pie