0018310: Improve configuration/management of MM firewall rules

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0018310	MMW 5	Install/Config	public	2021-09-17 00:28	2021-09-17 14:55

Reporter	peke	Assigned To
Priority	low	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Target Version	5.1

Summary	0018310: Improve configuration/management of MM firewall rules
Description	As explained checkup of invalid rules is disabled ~48586 0018264 further improves the rule To further improve firewall rules and MM configuration we should try to group MM rules as it will make existing rules check faster and not slowdown the Server start. Direct rules creation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/ics/set-up-processes?redirectedfrom=MSDN Netsh AdvFirewall Firewall Commands that can be used to filter/create/manage MM group: http://winintro.ru/netsh_technicalreference.en/html/1a736f2d-ecf8-4780-8e0f-85c4db75230b.htm
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related to	0018264	closed	Ludek	MMW 5	Firewall Rules: Auto rules needs to be tweaked in order that MM5 gets discoverable by Devices and MMA
related to	0013261	resolved	Ludek	MMW v4	MediaServer: Some Components are still blocked by firewall

Ludek 2021-09-17 14:55 developer ~0064725	'group' is not acceptable parameter in case of 'Netsh AdvFirewall Firewall add rule' , it can be used only in 'set rule''command. But the group doesn'not seem to be necessary parameter, we can leave without it.