Hi Group. thanks for all the help over the last couple of weeks. Everything is working now and I have started my deploy and a user asked a great question that I can’t find the answer for. How do we turn on Silent/Gaming Mode by default before deployment?
I’m using Enterprise Console, so if you are using small business, I’m not sure.
All you need to do is right click the computer catalog and choose properties. There are lots of things you can configure there. There is a Silent/Gaming mode section under policies for avast.
Alternatively, what I chose to do is just disable the sound notifications by modifying the ini by going under “Custom ini” settings also in the same place and adding:
“[Common]
SoundsEnabled=0”
That adds the SoundsEnabled=0 to the common section in the ini for all of your clients. I wanted my users to still receive notifications, just not the sounds so that’s the option I chose. Seems to be working great.
Hope that helps.
Edit: Also, this would affect the policy upon first check on the server. Provided they have connectivity to the server, it should take affect almost immediately. If you are looking for an option to keep it silent the moment it installs, I’m not sure. It would be nice to have those ini changes just part of the install package, but I’m not sure that’s possible.