Cisco Email Security Plug-In - New version 7.5.2 available

[Jason Meyer]

Just a FYI that Cisco released 7.5.2 of the Outlook Plugin software and if you have the default install done all of your end users will get a pop up telling them that a new version is available.

The Download link just takes them to a Cisco software download page, the user needs to login with a Cisco ID, have a contract number to download the software.    

Two complaints:

What's new in this Version isn't used for what's new in this version, just talks about the same link the 'Download' button has.

Most end users are not going to have a Cisco ID or a contract number to download the software.

Resolution:

Looks like this can be controlled with the C:\ProgramData\Cisco\Cisco IronPort Email Security Plug-In\username\CommonCompnentsConfig.xml file and setting

<checkForUpdates>

    <checkAutomatically display="hidden">true</checkAutomatically>

    <ignoredVersion>7.5.2</ignoredVersion>

    <serverURL>http://updates.res.cisco.com</serverURL>

  </checkForUpdates>

checkAutomatically to a false value.

[Robert Sherwin]

You'll just use the edited files and place them in a custom configuration directory.  During mass deployment, that folder is specified in the .exe line:

C:\Users\robsherw\Desktop>CiscoEmailSecurity-7-5-2-009.exe /exenoui /qn UseCustomConfig="\\172.18.250.59\share"

Getting a deployment engine to do so, I don't have that information - aside from using the SCCM method in the User Guide:

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/security/iea/plugin7-5/Admin_Guide.pdf