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Nov 14, 2008
09:58 AM
Firewall exception list for Vista and UAC
This is not directly msi packaging related question but I have a custom action that adds an firewall exception for my application on XP (SP2 or greater).
I simply populate the registry entries below:
*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall
\DomainProfile \AuthorizedApplications\List
*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall
\StandardProfile \AuthorizedApplications\List
What is the equivalent way for this on Vista? These registry entries dont seem to exist on Vista.
Also, like we do for firewall, can we add exceptions for UAC as well?
Thanks to all inputs in advance.
I simply populate the registry entries below:
*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall
\DomainProfile \AuthorizedApplications\List
*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall
\StandardProfile \AuthorizedApplications\List
What is the equivalent way for this on Vista? These registry entries dont seem to exist on Vista.
Also, like we do for firewall, can we add exceptions for UAC as well?
Thanks to all inputs in advance.
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Nov 16, 2008
12:45 PM
MSDN shows some examples on how to work with Firewall; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364726(VS.85).aspx. I hope this would work for both Vista and XP. Sure this will probably take some extra effort to apply some MSI terms.