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Those of you who have used Safeguard will know that for reasons known only to the Germans, Utimaco decided not to provide any way to automatically sync Safeguard with your AD domain(s) without resorting to a rather buggy API. They provide some example code for VBScript and Sophos are rumoured to be adding an automatic sync function in 5.60, but if you’d rather do it in Powershell and have some decent error handling and reporting then look no further....

The following script will allow you to add or remove registered user accounts to/from Sophos Safeguard Enterprise clients on a large scale (OU, domain or even org-wide). Needs to be run from a machine with Safeguard Server installed (or have the authentication method changed, of course). Obviously you can’t add Local accounts, but you can remove them – it hasn’t been tested with Workgroups. Important bits are as follows; Vars to set are:...