Can you install multiple console versions on a single computer?

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We’re in the process of upgrading our enterprise from BigFix 9.5.7 to 9.5.9. We’ve already done a test upgrade on our UAT system, but now folks can use the UAT system because they locally have the 9.5.7 console installed. Can we install a second BigFix console with another version on the same computer?

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I believe that would be unsupported.
-jgo

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Have more than one console installed, or better some downlevel compatibiity, would be highly appreciated. We also struggle on every update with the console installation / update.

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What we do is…

  1. Install the primary console version you need as the EXE installer.
  2. Install each of the other console versions on seperate computers and then backup each of the program files folder to a file share and rename the folder with the console version appended to the end.
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  3. Copy this folder to computers that need 2+ versions.

Thankfully our Dev, QA, and Prod is all on 10.0 right now, so we’re good… but there was a few months we had 3 versions over the past year.

Also note you can only run 1 at a time, but at least you can have multiple versions co-exist.

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