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office 2021 activation blocked

TarekHalloun 11 months ago

hello

I have an xg210 and im trying to allow the activation of office 2021

i added all the urls in the web exception , and gave allow all to a specific ip to test , still it is not working

nothing is shown as blocked in the logs

edit : when i install wireshark , it works !

what can i check exactly ?

so i was able to pinpoint the internet status of office is related to the Network Connection Status Indicator (NCSI) of microsoft .. i am trying to allow access to the servers of NCSI for everyone in my subnet . i added them to the web exception but it didnt work .. should i have a firewall rule for everyone to allow access ( other than the initial deny rule ) ? shouldnt the exception work for everything ??

please enlighten me

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AstaroNBack 8 months ago in reply to TarekHalloun +2 suggested

NCSI False "no internet" status Microsoft NCSI is a Windows service that determines whether the computer is connected to the Internet. If it thinks you are not connected, (Even though your are) Office…

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0 Vivek Jagad 11 months ago

Hello TarekHalloun,

Thank you for reaching out to the community, you may refer the following article below:
Configure web exceptions for Office 365: https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KB-000038173?language=en_US

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0 TarekHalloun 11 months ago in reply to Vivek Jagad

i added the exceptions and it works if i have allow all

other users with some limitations are still block , as if the exception did not work
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0 Vivek Jagad 11 months ago in reply to TarekHalloun

Can you perform a packet capture to see from which rule the traffic passes through when it does not work !!

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0 TarekHalloun 11 months ago in reply to Vivek Jagad

the connection to microsoft passes through the correct rule related to the user's ip , it shows as green with no blocking
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0 Vivek Jagad 11 months ago in reply to TarekHalloun

And if you add a FW rule into the IPS exception:
Bypass a specific firewall rule for Application Classification and ATP: https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KB-000038900?language=en_US

See if this helps !!

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0 TarekHalloun 11 months ago in reply to Vivek Jagad

what does this do ?
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0 Vivek Jagad 11 months ago in reply to TarekHalloun

it will Bypass a specific firewall rule for Application Classification and ATP

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0 TarekHalloun 11 months ago in reply to Vivek Jagad

but then all the restrictions i made on this rule will not work .. not a good solution
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0 Vivek Jagad 11 months ago in reply to TarekHalloun

It was just to confirm whether that works or not, and if that works then support can help you investigate further in that direction !!

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0 TarekHalloun 11 months ago in reply to Vivek Jagad

how can i select which rule to disable the atp?
i see the command : set ips ac_atp exception fwrules 1,2.

is 1,2 the rule number ?
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0 Vivek Jagad 11 months ago in reply to TarekHalloun

That's correct in your case the rule no is 7 so the command will be as follows:
set ips ac_atp exception fwrules 7

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0 Vivek Jagad 11 months ago in reply to TarekHalloun

That's correct in your case the rule no is 7 so the command will be as follows:
set ips ac_atp exception fwrules 7

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0 TarekHalloun 11 months ago in reply to Vivek Jagad

same issue
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0 Vivek Jagad 11 months ago in reply to TarekHalloun

Now this has to be further investigated by support !!

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0 TarekHalloun 11 months ago in reply to Vivek Jagad

i have a case since 3 days but no one is answering : 05372046
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0 Vivek Jagad 11 months ago in reply to TarekHalloun

Just checked in with the Support team, they'll revert you soon !

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