How to detect and add exceptions to Firewall programmatically?

I've been successful at installing a customized SQLexpress using setup.exe /settings template.ini.

What I'd like to do now is see if I can progammatically detect a Firewall on the SQLexpress machine and if there is one to add the exceptions for sqlservr and sqlbrowser programmatically so that the user doesn't have to do anything.

Is this possible and how would I do it?

Thanks,

jerry

You'll have to use the Windows Firewall API to do this. There is a topic on adding Program Exceptions here.

Mike

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Thanks Mike... that puts me on the right track.

/jerry