create forticlient installer with multiple configurations

[aironfabio]

Hello team,

In our company we have two different environments behind two different Fortigates (both on 7.2).

Both environments are reachable via SSL VPN using Forticlient. Is there a way to create an installer or deployable package (either .exe or .msi) that already has both Connections configured? So that at first installation the user already has in the drop-down menu both VPN Connections? We do not have EMS license, just firewall.

thanks in advance

F.

[ozkanaltas]

Hello @aironfabio ,

Before EMS, Fortinet provides the FortiClient configurator tool. But after EMS, Fortinet no longer provides that tool. Because of that, if you want to customize your FortiClient installer, you should use EMS for that purpose.

Or alternatively, you can take a backup file from you already configured FortiClient. After that, you can restore this backup file to all new clients.

[aironfabio]

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@ozkanaltas wrote:

Hello @aironfabio ,

Before EMS, Fortinet provides the FortiClient configurator tool. But after EMS, Fortinet no longer provides that tool. Because of that, if you want to customize your FortiClient installer, you should use EMS for that purpose.

Or alternatively, you can take a backup file from you already configured FortiClient. After that, you can restore this backup file to all new clients.

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How would I go about doing that, though? I will have a .conf file to restore, but that file would need to be restored manually by each user, right? Or can i package it with the installer?

[sw2090]

besides EMS there is no way to package it. It has to be restored by each user.

Also this is causing problems with different FortiClient Versions.

I also was unable to restore a config exported in FortiClient on Windows in FortiClient on MacOS even though both were the same version.