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CheckMates in Your Language!
While most of the content on CheckMates is in English, we now have a few groups where both content and discussions are available in other languages!
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New CheckMates Swag
Yes, I ordered some new stickers:
I also have some other stuff on order, some of which I will be giving away at CheckMates events in the near future.
What, exactly? You'll have to wait and see.
Community Highlights
Here are the top threads of the past week or so:
After a very successful CheckMates track during 2018, we're putting out a Call For Papers for our upcoming global CPX 360 events for 2019!
A useful script when you've got a lot of gateways in a Multi-Domain Environment.
SmartConsole R80.10 has gotten an update with some bugfixes.
If you haven't upgraded to R80.x, there's no time like the present. Also some hints about R80.20 GA in this thread from a reliable source
This issue has come up a few times on CheckMates, and John Fenoughty seems to have come up with a way to make it play nice.
Exclusions have to be configured properly.
Be sure to take advantage of this complimentary training for CheckMates members, if you haven't already!
Upcoming Events
Between Valeri Loukine and I, we'll be busy in the next several weeks!
- 18th September 2018: Migrate to R80.20.M1, Live in Houston!
- 20th September 2018: Migrate to R80.20.M1, Live in Irving!
- 26th September 2018: TechTalk: Performance Optimization with Tim Hall
- 5th October 2018: Migrate to R80.20.M1, Live in Paris!
- 16th October 2018: CheckMates comes to Raleigh, NC!
- 17th October 2018: CheckMates comes to Charlotte, NC!
- 18th October 2018: CheckMates comes to Columbia, SC!
- 24th October 2018: Migrate to R80.20.M1, Live in Moscow!
- 24th October 2018: TechTalk: CloudGuard for AWS - Security Transit VPC Demonstration
- 24th October 2018: Migrate to R80.20.M1, Live in Moscow!
- 30th October 2018: Check Point R80.20 Updates, Troubleshooting and Support Best Practices, Live in Hellerup!
- 1 November 2018: Check Point R80.20 Updates, Troubleshooting and Support Best Practices, Live in Skanderborg!
- 13th November 2018: Migrate to R80.20.M1, Live in Prague!
- 20th November 2018: Migrate to R80.20.M1 Live in Frankfurt!