topic R80.20.M1 SmartConsole coexisting with R80.20 in Firewall and Security Management https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10095#M90633 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P>Has anyone figured out a way to have the R80.20.M1 and R80.20 SmartConsole installed and coexisting on the same machine?&nbsp; I have customers on both versions and it's inconvenient having to uninstall one version to install the other version to make a change, then uninstall and install the other version again, sometimes several times a day.&nbsp; Can they be made to co-exist?</P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Matt</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:14:25 GMT biskit 2018-11-28T12:14:25Z R80.20.M1 SmartConsole coexisting with R80.20 https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10095#M90633 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P>Has anyone figured out a way to have the R80.20.M1 and R80.20 SmartConsole installed and coexisting on the same machine?&nbsp; I have customers on both versions and it's inconvenient having to uninstall one version to install the other version to make a change, then uninstall and install the other version again, sometimes several times a day.&nbsp; Can they be made to co-exist?</P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Matt</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:14:25 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10095#M90633 biskit 2018-11-28T12:14:25Z Re: R80.20.M1 SmartConsole coexisting with R80.20 https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10096#M90634 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>They only option I see accomplishing this might be using the <A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;solutionid=sk116158">portable versions of Check Point SmartConsole (sk116158)</A>.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:25:16 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10096#M90634 Danny 2018-11-28T12:25:16Z Re: R80.20.M1 SmartConsole coexisting with R80.20 https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10097#M90635 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Confirmed, this is what I do.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Nov 2018 20:21:12 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10097#M90635 PhoneBoy 2018-11-28T20:21:12Z Re: R80.20.M1 SmartConsole coexisting with R80.20 https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10098#M90636 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Limited success with this method.&nbsp; I've got R80.20 GA installed and that works fine.&nbsp; I've downloaded R80.20.M1 Portable and unzipped to a new folder.&nbsp; When I run it I get an error:</P><P></P><P><IMG class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/legacyfs/online/checkpoint/75824_pastedImage_3.png" /></P><P></P><P>This happens when I run "FwPolicy.exe" normally or "run as administrator".</P><P></P><P>If I fire up the full install of R80.20.M1 that logs in with no problem.</P><P></P><P>Has anyone else seen this error while using the Portable version?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:17:53 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10098#M90636 biskit 2018-11-29T11:17:53Z Re: R80.20.M1 SmartConsole coexisting with R80.20 https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10099#M90637 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Use Portable SmartConsole:&nbsp;<A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/docs/DOC-3243">R80.20 - Portable SmartConsole + Tips and Tricks</A>‌</P><P>But before you decompress the ZIP file, do the following to resolve this error:&nbsp;<A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/message/28801">"Failure while deserializing object of type" error in SmartConsole when trying to connect to Security Management Server with Portable SmartConsole</A>‌</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:59:59 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10099#M90637 PhoneBoy 2018-11-29T13:59:59Z Re: R80.20.M1 SmartConsole coexisting with R80.20 https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10100#M90638 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks <A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/migrated-users/2075">Dameon Welch-Abernathy</A>, that's working a treat now <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://community.checkpoint.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:40:34 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10100#M90638 biskit 2018-11-29T14:40:34Z Re: R80.20.M1 SmartConsole coexisting with R80.20 https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10101#M90639 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Just wanted to mention that we heard the feedback from the field on this issue and in the upcoming R80.20.M2, we plan to enable side-by-side installation with R80.20 GA (and other Mx releases).</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:21:03 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/R80-20-M1-SmartConsole-coexisting-with-R80-20/m-p/10101#M90639 Tomer_Noy 2018-12-06T15:21:03Z