Installing Sophos PureMessage to another SQL database is a simple process. On the server you wish to modify, open C:\Program Files\Sophos\PureMessage\Config\LastKnown\LocalConfig.xml. I’d suggest you use a half decent XML editor such as Notepad++ for this task. Under the <LocalConfig> tag there are four DBSettings tags, one for each database. These are called ConfigDBSettings, QuarDBSettings, ReportingDBSettings …

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