Exporting and importing offline firewall rules
You can export all your current offline firewall rules to an .ipp file that you can import and use on another computer. Exporting and importing can also be used as a form of backup.
To export offline firewall rules
1. If using DeviceLock Management Console, do the following:
a) Open DeviceLock Management Console and connect it to the computer running DeviceLock Service.
b) In the console tree, expand DeviceLock Service.
If using DeviceLock Service Settings Editor, do the following:
a) Open DeviceLock Service Settings Editor.
b) In the console tree, right-click DeviceLock Settings or DeviceLock Service, and then click Load Service Settings to open the DeviceLock Service settings file with defined offline DeviceLock policies.
c) In the console tree, expand DeviceLock Service.
If using DeviceLock Group Policy Manager, do the following:
a) Open Group Policy Object Editor.
b) In the console tree, expand Computer Configuration, and then expand DeviceLock.
2. Expand Protocols.
3. Under Protocols, do one of the following:
•Right-click Basic IP Firewall, and then click Save Offline.
- OR -
•Select
Basic IP Firewall, and then click
Save Offline 
on the toolbar.
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•Expand Basic IP Firewall, right-click any user or group specified in the firewall rule, and then click Save Offline.
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•Expand Basic IP Firewall, select any user or group specified in the firewall rule. In the details pane, right-click the firewall rule, and then click Save.
- OR -
•Expand
Basic IP Firewall, select any user or group specified in the firewall rule, and then click
Save Offline on the toolbar.
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•Right-click Basic IP Firewall, and then click Manage Offline. In the right pane of the Basic IP Firewall (Offline) dialog box, under Rules, click Save.
4. In the Save As dialog box that appears, choose the folder where you want to save the .ipp file, specify the file name, and then click Save.
When you export offline firewall rules, they are saved in a file with an .ipp extension.
To import offline firewall rules
1. If using DeviceLock Management Console, do the following:
a) Open DeviceLock Management Console and connect it to the computer running DeviceLock Service.
b) In the console tree, expand DeviceLock Service.
If using DeviceLock Service Settings Editor, do the following:
a) Open DeviceLock Service Settings Editor.
b) In the console tree, expand DeviceLock Service.
If using DeviceLock Group Policy Manager, do the following:
a) Open Group Policy Object Editor.
b) In the console tree, expand Computer Configuration, and then expand DeviceLock.
2. Expand Protocols.
3. Under Protocols, do one of the following:
•Right-click Basic IP Firewall, and then click Load Offline.
- OR -
•Select
Basic IP Firewall, and then click
Load Offline 
on the toolbar.
- OR -
•Expand Basic IP Firewall, right-click any user or group specified in the firewall rule, and then click Load Offline.
- OR -
•Expand Basic IP Firewall, select any user or group specified in the firewall rule. In the details pane, right-click the firewall rule, and then click Load.
- OR -
•Expand
Basic IP Firewall, select any user or group specified in the firewall rule, and then click
Load Offline on the toolbar.
- OR -
•Right-click Basic IP Firewall, and then click Manage Offline. In the right pane of the Basic IP Firewall (Offline) dialog box, under Rules, click Load.
4. In the Open dialog box that appears, locate and select the file you want to import, and then click Open.
If offline firewall rules are already defined and you choose to import new offline firewall rules, the following message is displayed: “Do you want to overwrite existing records (Yes - Overwrite, No - Append)?”. In the message box, click Yes to overwrite the existing offline firewall rules. Click No to append new offline firewall rules to the existing offline firewall rules.