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Well, are you trying to share something across your network? Or are you trying to implement a service, like a website, or an FTP server?<br />
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John Jennings<br />
MCP,MCDST,MCITP,MCTS
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Well, are you trying to share something across your network? Or are you trying to implement a service, like a website, or an FTP server?

John Jennings
MCP,MCDST,MCITP,MCTS

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all of our servers implement the windows firewall. we have been placing individual exceptions for the backup software executables, so the backup servers can engage the clients to begin their backups. almost everytime we install a backup software update we have to add/remove some of these exceptions, if we could allow any executable file within the backup software directory to be allowed to communicate through the firewall, we would not have to manually add/remove exceptions after each update.
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all of our servers implement the windows firewall. we have been placing individual exceptions for the backup software executables, so the backup servers can engage the clients to begin their backups. almost everytime we install a backup software update we have to add/remove some of these exceptions, if we could allow any executable file within the backup software directory to be allowed to communicate through the firewall, we would not have to manually add/remove exceptions after each update.

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Is there a way either through the registry or other means to allow a Firewall Exception for an entire folder in the Windows Firewall without entering each executable separately that the folder contains? I am searching for a way to do this for out backup software.
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Is there a way either through the registry or other means to allow a Firewall Exception for an entire folder in the Windows Firewall without entering each executable separately that the folder contains? I am searching for a way to do this for out backup software.

Windows Server 2003 Windows Firewall Folder Level Exception

Operating system security (OS security) is the process of ensuring OS integrity, confidentiality and availability. OS security refers to specified steps or measures used to protect the OS from threats, viruses, worms, malware or remote hacker intrusions. OS security encompasses all preventive-control techniques, which safeguard any computer assets capable of being stolen, edited or deleted if OS security is compromised, including authentication, passwords and threats to systems and programs.

OS Security

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).