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Behavior of the Security Agent firewall when "In Office" or "Out of Office" location is enabled

    • Updated:
    • 5 Sep 2017
    • Product/Version:
    • Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 8.0
    • Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 9.0
    • Platform:
    • Windows 2003 Compute Cluster Server
    • Windows 2003 Datacenter
    • Windows 2003 Datacenter 64-bit
    • Windows 2003 Enterprise
    • Windows 2003 Enterprise 64-bit
    • Windows 2003 Home Server
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    • Windows 2008 Enterprise
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    • Windows 2008 Standard
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    • Windows 2008 Storage Server
    • Windows 2008 Web Server Edition
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    • Windows 2011 Small Business Server Essentials
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    • Windows 2012 Enterprise
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    • Windows 7 32-bit
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Summary
Know how the Security Agent firewall behaves when it is enabled in at least one of the following locations:
  • In-office = disabled
  • Out-of-office = enabled
Firewall locations
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Details
Public
The following lists the behavior of the Security Agent firewall under different scenarios:
  • When In office and Out of Office is enabled, firewall service and driver is running.
  • When In office is disabled and Out of Office is enabled, the Firewall service and driver is running.
    • When client location is In office, firewall profile filtering is bypassed or does not take effect.
    • When client switches to Out of Office, firewall profile filtering will take effect.
  • When In Office is enabled and Out of Office is disabled, firewall service and driver is running.
    • When client location is In Office, firewall profile filtering will take effect.
    • When client switches to Out of Office, firewall profile filtering will be bypassed.
  • When In Office and Out of Office is disabled, firewall service is stopped or firewall driver is removed/uninstalled.
Premium
Internal
Rating:
Category:
Configure
Solution Id:
1095264
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