Group

Applies To: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista

The Group setting specifies the name of a FirewallGroup. The available rule groups differ by Windows® edition.

To see the rule groups available on a computer

1. Run the wf.msc command. This opens the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window.

2. In the Windows Firewall window, select Inbound Rules. This shows each of the inbound rules.

3. In the Actions window, select Filter by Group. The list of available groups is displayed.

In unattended installations, you can use a string for the Group setting—for example, "Remote Desktop." However, to specify a Group in an answer file that applies to multilingual unattended installations, you can reference an indirect string resource stored in the FirewallAPI.dll binary. For example, to enable Remote Desktop, use the following:

<Group>@FirewallAPI.dll,-28752</Group>

For more information, see the MSDN topic: Firewall Groups.

Values

Parent Hierarchy

Networking-MPSSVC-Svc | FirewallGroups | FirewallGroup | Group

Valid Passes

specialize

Applies To

For a list of the supported Windows editions and architectures that this component supports, see Networking-MPSSVC-Svc.

XML Example

The following XML output shows how to set two Windows Firewall groups. The first group is set using the name of the group. The second is set using information from the @FirewallAPI.dll file.

<FirewallGroups>
      <FirewallGroup wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="WindowsMediaPlayer">
      <Active>true</Active> 
      <Group>Windows Media Player</Group> 
      <Profile>all</Profile> 
   </FirewallGroup>
      <FirewallGroup wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="RemoteDesktop">
      <Active>true</Active> 
      <Group>@FirewallAPI.dll,-28752</Group> 
      <Profile>all</Profile> 
   </FirewallGroup>
</FirewallGroups>

See Also

Concepts

FirewallGroup