Hi DJD,
1. My apologies if this was not communicated clearly in the landing page where you registered for the ESET Endpoint Security for Mac license. I have already asked the responsible team to include this information in the KB article, it should be updated in the next few days.
2. At this moment, I do not have an update on the VPN issue, but will do my best to chase it and post a follow-up later today.
3. I agree with neilmartin83 and Shannon that the best way to approach this would be to create a configuration locally using the GUI and export the settings. This can be done either using the GUI (Import and Export Settings), or using command line (sudo /Applications/.esets/Contents/MacOS/esets_daemon --export-settings [file_name]).
If you prefer to only change a specific setting, the way that could be done is by exporting settings before you change the specific one, change the setting in the GUI, export the settings with the change and compare the two exported settings files to determine the difference using a comparison tool. Then you can modify the second exported settings file and only leave the tag with the required setting and appropriate parent tags that you would like to change in the configuration on the clients.
It is not possible to directly import an XML into the product, so for the import, it would be necessary to create a gzip-ed tar file from application settings (XML) and user local settings (empty eset.gui file). Once you have that, you can push the configuration to Macs on your network, using e.g. Apple Remote Desktop, or command line (/Applications/.esets/Contents/MacOS/esets_daemon --import-settings [file_name]).
4. Yes, the version in the KB article is the latest one. There is an email list and an RSS feed with information about new releases, but not a specific one for the Mac product. Similar information is also available in ESMC, which can also indicate that there is a newer version of the client software available from ESET.
5. Restarting daemon should not be necessary for the configuration to be applied. If it is the case, please let us know. Thank you.