Windows Firewall Configuration Provider 1.2

Windows Firewall Configuration Provider by Microsoft Corporation is a built-in Windows component that enables centralized, policy-based management of Windows Defender Firewall across PCs and servers. It exposes a consistent, programmatic way for IT administrators and management tools to configure, enforce, and audit host firewall settings at scale, helping reduce the attack surface and support compliance requirements.

Key capabilities:

• Profile control: Configure Domain, Private, and Public profiles, including default inbound/outbound behavior, notifications, and edge traversal.
• Rule management: Create, modify, and remove inbound and outbound rules by app, service, port, protocol (TCP/UDP/ICMP), address ranges, and interface types; target rules to specific profiles.
• App-aware policies: Define rules for both traditional desktop applications (by path or service) and modern apps (by package family name).
• Logging and auditing: Enable and tune firewall logging for dropped packets and successful connections, including log file location and size limits.
• Policy enforcement: Apply settings consistently via device management solutions and scripting, with support for querying current state to verify compliance.
• Enterprise integration: Works with Microsoft Intune and other MDM solutions (via the Firewall CSP), as well as Group Policy, PowerShell (NetSecurity module), and Windows APIs used by management tools.

Designed for IT administrators, security teams, and software vendors, the Windows Firewall Configuration Provider is included with Windows—no separate installation required. Administrative privileges are required to change settings, and some options may be governed by organizational policy.

Windows Firewall Configuration Provider is developed by Microsoft and is used by 1 user of Software Informer. The most popular version of this product among our users is 1.2. The names of program executable files are DVDMaker.exe, explorer.exe, mstsc.exe, powershell.exe and rundll32.exe.

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