Changing Settings in the Non-current Profile

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The following example demonstrates changing settings in the non-current profile.

Option Explicit

'Set Constants
Const NET_FW_PROFILE_DOMAIN = 0
Const NET_FW_PROFILE_STANDARD = 1

'Declare variables
Dim profiletype

' Create the firewall manager object.
Dim fwMgr
Set fwMgr = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr")

' Get the current profile for the local firewall policy.
Dim profile
Set profile = fwMgr.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile
profiletype = profile.Type

' Now get the profile that isn't current.
If profiletype = NET_FW_PROFILE_DOMAIN Then
   set profile = fwMgr.LocalPolicy.GetProfileByType(NET_FW_PROFILE_STANDARD)
Else
   set profile = fwMgr.LocalPolicy.GetProfileByType(NET_FW_PROFILE_DOMAIN)
End If

profile.IcmpSettings.AllowInboundEchoRequest = TRUE