This Week in CheckMates 11 March 2019

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CheckMates Takes Bratislava

Valeri Loukine‌ and I did our largest CheckMates event ever in Bratislava where we had 100 people!

 

Community Highlights

Here are the conversations worth watching in the community:

https://community.checkpoint.com/community/about-checkmates/blog/2019/03/07/the-new-checkmates-is-al...‌

It should come on the 12th if all goes to plan.

R80.20 Use Cases TechTalk 

We had another TechTalk on R80.20 and had a LOT of Q&A.

Your opinion matters! 

We're asking you how you use mobile messaging apps, which will help us provide better products and services to you.

AWS Management Server and separate Logging Server 

There's an issue with the default Security Groups that requires manual adjustment.

Cluster XL - Interface Preference 

Can you ignore a specific interface in ClusterXL (meaning not cause a failover if it dies)?

Migrating the Functionality of a dedicated Proxy Server to Check Point 

TL;DR: We're not a proxy server.

Script to check health on SMB 

A new community development

Identity Detection - Best option? 

Discusses the various options, and there's no one size fits all solution even in a single environment

HTTPS drop in R80.10 

The workaround the community came up with is now documented in SK, even.

 

A feature many of you have been waiting for is now available.

Upcoming Events

We are now maintaining our event calendar in Google Calendar.

You can browse our calendar of events here: CheckMates Calendar 

Upcoming events include:

• Mar 12th: ERFA East Meeting (CheckMates Denmark) Q1 2019
• Mar 14th:
  • ERFA West Meeting (CheckMates Denmark) Q1 2019
  • CheckMates Live! Dublin - March 2019 
• Mar 20th: Running VSX like a Pro TechTalk 
• Mar 26th: Migrate to R80.x Live in Madrid! 
• Mar 27th: Migrate to R80.x Live in Lisbon! 
• Mar 28th: Migrate to R80.x Live in Bunnik! 
• April 2nd: CheckMates Live in Vienna! 
• April 3rd: CheckMates Live in Salzburg! 
• April 17th: Migrate to R80.x Live in Almaty! 

We are currently in the planning phases for our 2019 events.

If you want one in your area, get in contact with us: checkmates@checkpoint.com