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TIMOTHY_MANGAN
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Apr 25, 2021
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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\Ser...
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    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
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Aniket_Banerjee
Former Employee
Jan 16, 2023

TIMOTHY_MANGAN: Can you share the app where you had this issue? We are trying to recreate the scenario.

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      TIMOTHY_MANGAN
      MVP
      Jan 16, 2023

      @Aniket_Banerjee: The original was a customer owned app I can't share, so UltraVNC will do. Perhaps Pollewops can share whatever app he was fixing up also.

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        Aniket_Banerjee
        Former Employee
        Jan 19, 2023

        Hi TIMOTHY_MANGAN

         

        We tried converting UltraVNC in a test environment. MPT does detect the firewall, but it adds firewall rules to registry:

        Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules instead of registry location you mentioned - HKLM\Software\Services\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess.

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