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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 IronWallEGDMainto 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,PowershellorTerminalas Administrator - Run
cd "C:\Windows\System32\iwegd\"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-installto run the upgraded version of IronWall (recommended approach)
OR
- Run
.\IronWall.exe --attachto run IronWall attached with current terminal (IronWall would terminate with the terminal in this setup) - (Highly discouraged)
Side note
- If
--soft-installor--attacharguments fail delete thedatadirectory in"C:\Windows\System32\iwegd\"& re-install fresh copy of IronWall refer this