I have a WiX installation project in which I added two firewall exceptions as part of the installer using a WiX FirewallException . This works fine when the client computer uses the Windows firewall, but I have a report that the user was unable to start the solution when using the Norman Personal Firewall. Some question regarding this:
- Will other firewalls generally comply with the rules added to the Windows firewall? If so - is it just importing or are firewalls always respecting the changes to the Windows firewall rules?
- Is there a general way to add firewall exceptions so that all / many firewalls comply with them during installation, such as extending the firewall in WiX?
- Using netsh will cause firewall exceptions to be added to other products than Windows Firewall?
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