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

[Gary M]

Hmmm I need to sign a dev agreement to fork the repo..

I guess now I wait..and the weekend schedule for the effort is forsaken.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Gary M <garym at oedata.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the links.. I'm going to modify the wix extension. Its c++ so
> there is little learning curve.
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/tree/develop/src/ext/FirewallExtension
>
> I need to figure out the precedence of the firewall config xml file and
> the group policy.
>
> I hope to get it done over the weekend
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Maybe you are looking for something along these lines:
>> http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/501194/Allow-Block-a-program
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13385491/adding-an-ip-exception-to-the-firewall
>>
>> and use a DTF C# CA.  I have not used DTF yet as I have found ways to do
>> things with C++ which I prefer for CAs.
>> ________________________________________
>> 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.
>> >
>> > ________________________________________
>> > From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of
>> > Gary M <garym at oedata.com>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:16 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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