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INetFwPolicy2 interface

The INetFwPolicy2 interface allows an application or service to access the firewall policy.

Members

The INetFwPolicy2 interface inherits from the IDispatch interface. INetFwPolicy2 also has these types of members:

Methods
Properties

Methods

The INetFwPolicy2 interface has these methods.

Method	Description
get_BlockAllInboundTraffic	Gets the value of the BlockAllInboundTraffic property. This property indicates whether inbound traffic is blocked for a specified profile.
get_CurrentProfileTypes	Retrieves the bitmask of the currently active profile.
get_DefaultInboundAction	Gets the value for the default action for inbound traffic. It can be either allowed or blocked.
get_DefaultOutboundAction	Gets the value for the default action for outbound traffic. It can be either allowed or blocked.
get_ExcludedInterfaces	Gets the value of the ExcludedInterfaces property. This property contains the list of interfaces excluded from a specified profile's firewall rules.
get_FirewallEnabled	Gets the value of the FirewallEnabled property. This property indicates whether the firewall is enabled or disabled for a specified profile.
get_IsRuleGroupCurrentlyEnabled	Determines whether a specified group of firewall rules is enabled or disabled for the current profile, considering the firewall's state, BlockAllInboundTraffic state and group policy overrides state.
get_IsRuleGroupEnabled	Determines whether a specified group of firewall rules is enabled or disabled.
get_LocalPolicyModifyState	Determines if adding or setting a rule or group of rules will take effect in the current firewall profile.
get_NotificationsDisabled	Gets the value of the NotificationsDisabled property. This property indicates whether notifications are enabled or disabled for a specified profile.
get_Rules	Gets the value of the Rules property.
get_ServiceRestriction	Retrieves the interface to manipulate the Windows Source Hardening (WSH) store.
get_UnicastResponsesToMulticastBroadcastDisabled	Gets the value of the UnicastResponseToMulticastBroadcastDisabled property. This property indicates whether the firewall should allow unicast incoming responses to outgoing multicast and broadcast traffic.
put_BlockAllInboundTraffic	Sets the value of the BlockALlInboundTraffic property. This property indicates whether inbound traffic is blocked for a specified profile.
put_DefaultInboundAction	Sets the value for the default action for inbound traffic. It can be either allowed or blocked.
put_DefaultOutboundAction	Gets the value for the default action for outbound traffic. It can be either allowed or blocked.
put_ExcludedInterfaces	Sets the value of the ExcludedInterfaces property. This property contains the list of interfaces excluded from a specified profile's firewall rules.
put_FirewallEnabled	Sets the value of the FirewallEnabled property. This property indicates whether the firewall is enabled or disabled for a specified profile.
put_NotificationsDisabled	Sets the value of the NotificationsDisabled property. This property indicates whether notifications are enabled or disabled for a specified profile.
put_UnicastResponsesToMulticastBroadcastDisabled	Sets the value of the UnicastResponseToMulticastBroadcastDisabled setting. This property indicates whether the firewall should allow unicast incoming responses to outgoing multicast and broadcast traffic.

Properties

The INetFwPolicy2 interface has these properties.

Property	Description
BlockAllInboundTraffic	Access to the property that indicates that inbound traffic should be blocked by the firewall.
CurrentProfileTypes	Retrieves the bitmask of the currently active profile.
DefaultInboundAction	Access to the property that specifies the default action for inbound traffic.
DefaultOutboundAction	Access to the property that specifies the default action for outbound.
EnableRuleGroup	Enables or disables a specified group of rules.
ExcludedInterfaces	Access to a list of interfaces on which firewall settings are excluded.
FirewallEnabled	Access to the property that indicates whether the firewall is enabled.
NotificationsDisabled	Access to the property that indicates whether interactive firewall notifications are disabled.
RestoreLocalFirewallDefaults	Restores the local firewall configuration to its default state.
Rules	Access to the Rules property for this policy.
ServiceRestriction	Access to the Windows Service Hardening (WSH) store.
UnicastResponsesToMulticastBroadcastDisabled	Access to the property that indicates whether unicast incoming responses to outgoing multicast and broadcast traffic are disabled.

Remarks

All configuration changes take effect immediately.

The Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing service must be running to access this interface.

Requirements

Minimum supported client	Windows Vista [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2008 [desktop apps only]
Header	Netfw.h
DLL	FirewallAPI.dll

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