Windows Advanced firewall

araczek

Hi,

In working through an excercise I find it's not working out correctly. In MS Press 70-642 I am testing the firewall rules. On the Advanced Firewall properties itself I have blocked outgoing connections (I am testing with IE, using the IIS on another VM in a virtual LAN to test). I then created a rule to allow iexplore.exe on all profiles. It is enabled and has "any" across the board. Supposedly I should be able to browse the server but I cannot. What's up with that??

To be clear, the block outgoing I performed by rt clicking Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, properties, and on Outbound Connections selected Block. Then wrote the allow RULE.

What is happening?

araczek

NEVER MIND. Found my problem. I am using Win7 x64. So the path I used was to the x64 version of IE. But the icon in my start menu was
the x86 version. When I specifically ran the one in the path that I allowed it worked as advertised.

DOH!