Protect Windows computers manually

You can protect computers manually.

You must use an administrator account on the computers that you want to protect.

To protect computers:

  1. On each computer that you want to protect, browse to the bootstrap location, find setup.exe and double-click it.
  2. In the Sophos Setup dialog box, in the User account details, enter details of the Update Manager account, SophosUpdateMgr, that you created to access the share where Sophos Enterprise Console puts software updates.
    Tip You can also use any low-privilege account that can access the bootstrap location. Sophos Enterprise Console will apply an updating policy that includes the right user account details later.
Note For information about command line parameters for the setup.exe file, see knowledge base article 12570.