Downloading security software

To download security software to a central location, ready for deployment to workstations, you must configure the update manager that you installed.

You can use one or both of the following methods.

Configure the update manager automatically explains how to run a wizard, which enables you to download:

  • Security software for all supported platforms.
  • Only the currently recommended version.
  • Only to subfolders of the share \\server name\SophosUpdate, where server name is the name of the server on which the update manager is installed.

Configure the update manager manually explains how to configure the update manager directly, to enable you to download:

  • Security software for all supported platforms.
  • Preview or earlier versions.
  • To other shares, perhaps on other servers.