Automate ICF settings

[joed]

I work for a Univeristy that does not have most of it's
desktops behind a perimeter firewall, hence, we use ICF on
a lot of our XP machines. We currently are trying to use
a product that requires us adding about 10 ports to the
ICF settings. When the ports are added, everything works
great. My problem, however is that I can't visit every
desktop with XP and add all of these ports to ICF. I need
a way to automate the ICF port additions. Are there any
tools out there that I can use to automate ICF settings
(adding ports) ? If not what are my other alternatives to
automate this process.

ThankYou,

joed

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

I work for a Univeristy that does not have most of it's
desktops behind a perimeter firewall, hence, we use ICF on
a lot of our XP machines. We currently are trying to use
a product that requires us adding about 10 ports to the
ICF settings. When the ports are added, everything works
great. My problem, however is that I can't visit every
desktop with XP and add all of these ports to ICF. I need
a way to automate the ICF port additions. Are there any
tools out there that I can use to automate ICF settings
(adding ports) ? If not what are my other alternatives to
automate this process.

Hi

You could create a script that does the job, and run it in a logon script or a
computer startup script (GPO/AD).


Platform SDK: Internet Connection Sharing and Internet Connection Firewall
Adding and Removing Port Mappings (JScript)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ics/ics/adding_and_removing_port_mappings_jscript_.asp