4.1 Opening a Policy Store

Before a client application can perform most of the operations, it opens a policy store handle. The protocol sequence that opens a policy store is as follows.

Figure 2: Opening a policy store

To open a policy store, the client first gets an rpcBinding to this interface in the server. Then the client simply calls the RPC method to open the required store. In this case, the client chooses the local store.

 FW_POLICY_STORE_HANDLE     hStore = NULL;
     DWORD
     RRPC_FWOpenPolicyStore(
         [in] FW_CONN_HANDLE                      rpcConnHandle = rpcBinding,
         [in] WORD                                BinaryVersion = 0x0200,
         [in] FW_STORE_TYPE                       StoreType = FW_STORE_TYPE_LOCAL, 
         [in]  FW_POLICY_ACCESS_RIGHT AccessRight = FW_POLICY_ACCESS_RIGHT_READ_WRITE,
         [in]  DWORD                              dwFlags = 0,
         [out] PFW_POLICY_STORE_HANDLE           phPolicyStore = &hStore
         );