We use Sophos AV, too, and before sysprepping and pulling the image I uninstall Sophos AV, but just the program itself, not the Auto-Update application, which is separate.
After putting the image on another PC, Sophos AV is automatically installed via the Auto-Update, that was still on the image (including the update information, i.e. where to download it from). Has always worked for me this way.
I have to take back, what I said earlier.
When I first tried to migrate the database, I apparently did something wrong while exporting the db, because the size of the dump wasn’t nearly as big as it is now, when I tried it again. I now was able to successfully import the database and I have hosts, image definitions and users showing up properly in the web interface.
The next step is to perform all of this on my actual FOG server, as this was only a test with a VM.
Thanks for the help everyone!
Before you take the image:
After the deploy Sophos should now automatically install. At least that’s how I do it, no Snapins needed.