[wix-users] Is there support for firewall inbound and outbound rules ?

[Phill Hogland]

I don't know the specific answer to that question.  I would investigate some of the following links:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7701667/how-to-add-outbound-windows-firewall-exception
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd734783(v=ws.10).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364726(v=VS.85).aspx

A general comment is that my setups are used by customers on locked down networks, and while I wish that I could use certain AWF features like defining a group I have been able to satisfy the needs with the existing WixFirewallExt.  I would like to volunteer to contribute code back to the community whenever possible, but for some of the security solutions I have had to implement my employer has not authorized such a contribution.  I have been on a multiyear journey converting many IS setups to wix and have almost completed my last conversion.  I am very pleased with the results so far.


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From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Gary M <garym at oedata.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:43 PM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Is there support for firewall inbound and outbound rules ?

Hi Phil

Thank you for responding to my question. I downloaded the source last night
and started to poke around. It looks like more work than I have time for
 at the moment..  Maybe next week or so.. There are two use cases, one for
stand alone OS and the other that uses group policies to administer rules.
I'm not sure if there's a common means to address both cases or if they
need o be wrapped in a single extension via a common api.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>
wrote:

> I believe that until someone develops a solution and contributes it to the
> open-source WiX project the capability does not exist today.  While the
> WixFirewallExtension is useful on Vista or later, its feature set targets
> the Windows Firewall for XP and not explicitly the Advanced Windows
> Firewall of Vista or later.   I have had some ideas on how to implement AWF
> features but have not had anytime to work on them yet.
>
> ________________________________________
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> Gary M <garym at oedata.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:16 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
> Subject: [wix-users] Is there support for firewall inbound and outbound
> rules ?
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing an installer for a locked down server environment where each
> inbound and outbound firewall rule must be defined.  I've been playing with
> the Firewall extension, but it only seems to support inbound rules.  Is
> there a way to support outbound rules?
>
> v/r
> gary
>
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