[Solved] Windows Firewall rule that will allow Windows Update

The problem has been solved here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/62b9fd5c-10b2-4266-bc15-fcf3e79d20d4/solved-windows-firewall-rule-that-allows-windows-update?forum=w7itpronetworking
Everything from here down is obsolete.

Go to Control Panel >Firewall>Advanced Settings. Then click
Action>Export policy to make a copy of your current policy in case you want to restore it. Then click
Action>Restore Default Policy.
This should allow you to use Windows Update.
See also:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/bb693717.aspx
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/836941
S.Sengupta, Windows Entertainment and Connected Home MVP

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[Solved] Windows Firewall rule that allows Windows Update

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not acceptable.
Thank You.
===== Solution =====
Suppose that, as the default, you've set the outbound firewall to block (see
To close the outbound firewall, below). In order for Windows Update to check whether an update is available and then to download the update files, you first need an outbound firewall
allow-rule that allows the Windows Update service to pass through the outbound firewall.
Prerequisite: Knowledge of the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and its "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security" plug-in.
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allows '%SystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe' (the generic service driver) to pass through the outbound firewall on behalf of 'wuauserv' (the name of the specific service that performs the update).
Warning: If you don't know what I'm writing about, get help.
Name: Allow Windows Update (...or any name you prefer - it doesn't matter)
Group:
Profile: Public
Enabled: Yes
Action: Allow
Program: %SystemRoot%\System32\svchost.exe
Local Address: Any
Remote Address: Any
Protocol: Any
Local Port: Any
Remote Port: Any
Allowed Computers: Any
Status: OK
Service: wuauserv
Rule Source: Local Setting
Interface Type: All interface types
Excepted Computers: None
Description:
To open the outbound firewall:
More accurate wording would be
Outbound connections are allowed unless explicitly blocked by a rule.
If you look at the standard rules you will find no block-rules. That means that nothing is blocked, everything is allowed, and the outbound firewall is wide open.
To close the outbound firewall:
More accurate wording would be
Outbound connections are blocked unless explicitly allowed by a rule.
If you look at the standard rules you will find only allow-rules that have been crafted to allow the vital Windows connections to pass through the outbound firewall. To an informed observer it's obvious that the firewall engineers crafted these
allow-rules so that users who closed the outbound firewall wouldn't have to write them. But the firewall engineers left out Windows Update.

Hi mark,
Thanks for sharing, it will help other users who have similar issue.
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The firewall service calls RpcServerRegisterAuthInfo to setup RPC security from FwRpcAPIsRegisterAuthInfo. It happens during registration of RPC interfaces in FwRpcAPIsInterfaceCreate. FwRpcAPIsInterfaceCreate is called from FwRpcAPIsInitialize. And FwRpcAPIsInitialize
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