Description

The FwpmProviderAdd0 function adds a new provider to the system.

Parameters

engineHandle [in]

Handle for an open session to the filter engine. Call FwpmEngineOpen0 to open a session to the filter engine.

provider [in]

The provider object to be added.

sd [in, optional]

Security information for the provider object.

Return value

Remarks

If the caller supplies a null security descriptor, the system will assign a default security descriptor.

Boot-time objects are added to the Base Filtering Engine (BFE) when the TCP/IP driver starts, and are removed once the BFE finishes initialization. Persistent objects are added when the BFE starts. If a policy provider has a persistent policy that is not intended to be enforced if its associated service is disabled, the caller can specify an optional service name in the FWPM_PROVIDER0 structure. This service then owns the persistent policy object. At start, the BFE only adds the following types of persistent objects to the system.

• The object is not associated with a provider.
• The object has an associated provider that does not specify a service name.
• The object has an associated provider and an associated service set to auto-start.

This function cannot be called from within a read-only transaction, it fails with FWP_E_INCOMPATIBLE_TXN. See Object Management for more information about transactions.

The caller needs FWPM_ACTRL_ADD access to the provider's container. See Access Control for more information.

FwpmProviderAdd0 is a specific implementation of FwpmProviderAdd. See WFP Version-Independent Names and Targeting Specific Versions of Windows for more information.

See also

• FwpmEngineOpen0
• FWPM_PROVIDER0
• FWPM_ACTRL_ADD
• WFP Error Codes
• Object Management
• Access Control
• WFP Version-Independent Names and Targeting Specific Versions of Windows