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TIMOTHY_MANGAN's avatar
Apr 25, 2021

MSIX Packaging Tool Firewall Rule Failure

The Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool:

  • Does not detect firewall rules added by the installer and add them as Desktop2 manifest entries.
  • Does not capture HKLM\Software\Services\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess registry entries even though this key is not included in the registry filter list of the tool.

 

The former keeps the package as incomplete, but the latter keeps other tools from remediating the problem.

  • Aniket_Banerjee's avatar
    Aniket_Banerjee
    Mar 10, 2023
    We tried Teamviewer, but it adds firewall rules as expected - in SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules

    We tried, but couldn't find an app that writes firewall rules in:
    SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\FirewallRules
  • Thank you for the feedback, we will add this to our backlog of items for the next release.
    • Pollewops's avatar
      Pollewops
      Iron Contributor
      Any idea already when this firewall adding is fixed in MSIX?
      • Pollewops's avatar
        Pollewops
        Iron Contributor

        I tested the firewall in the manifest today and it was working fine. After installing several rules are created and when uninstalling they were removed.

        Ok it was not captured, but manually added like we normally do also with app-v.

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