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IronWall Upgrade Guide

Already have IronWall EGD installed & want to upgrade ? Here is a detail guide for upgrading IronWall EGD


Steps to manually upgrade IronWall on an endpoint

  • Make sure you're an admin user on the target system
  • Open a Terminal as Administrator
  • Run sc.exe delete IronWallEGDMain to delete IronWall's persistent service
  • Kill existing IronWall process if it's running
  • Uninstall the existing version of IronWall navigating to "Windows Settings"
  • Download & Install the new version of IronWall from here
  • Open Command Prompt, Powershell or Terminal as Administrator
  • Run cd "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\IronWall EGD\" to change to installation directory
  • If you have existing config files of IronWall in this directory run .\IronWall.exe --migrate-db. This will update the config files to the latest version compatible with the latest build of IronWall
  • Run .\IronWall.exe --soft-install to run the upgraded version of IronWall (recommended approach)

OR

  • Run .\IronWall.exe --attach to run IronWall attached with current terminal (IronWall would terminate with the terminal in this setup) - (Highly discouraged)


Side note

  • If --soft-install or --attach arguments fail delete the data directory in "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\IronWall EGD\" & re-install fresh copy of IronWall refer this