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PEER_E_FW_DECLINED
Where the peer stack rejects the operation
PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — HRESULT 0x8063700B marks the user declined the request to enable firewall exceptions needed by Peer Collaboration. PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — Treat it as a presence session result rather than a generic peer-networking failure.
PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — Peer Collaboration provides serverless presence, contacts, endpoint subscriptions and invitations. PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — Its operations depend on an interactive user context, explicit sign-in scopes and firewall/privacy consent.
Evidence to preserve before retrying
PEER_E_FW_DECLINED— Record the first failing surface among Peer Collaboration sign-in and Windows Firewall consent flow.PEER_E_FW_DECLINED— Preserve consent prompt result, requesting application, user/session, active firewall profile and whether the rule remains disabled.PEER_E_FW_DECLINED— Place successful creation or discovery, state-changing events and the failing call on one timeline.PEER_E_FW_DECLINED— Keep peer names, identities, record identifiers, invitation data and endpoints in their original Unicode or binary representation.
Controlled isolation
PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — repeat only through an explicit user-initiated test and observe the rule state after accepting versus declining. PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — Change one variable only; simultaneous changes to identity, cloud, database and firewall state destroy attribution.
| Checkpoint | Question for PEER_E_FW_DECLINED |
|---|---|
| Before the API | PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — Was the required invitation workflow obtained in this process and user context? |
| At the HRESULT | PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — Preserve consent prompt result, requesting application, user/session, active firewall profile and whether the rule remains disabled. |
| After correction | PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — honor the decision and present clear instructions for enabling the scoped rule manually; never bypass consent by disabling firewall protection. |
Neighboring result
PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — PEER_E_PRIVACY_DECLINED differs because firewall-declined is network-rule consent; privacy-declined is People Near Me presence consent. PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — Keep both HRESULT values in chronological order because a corrected prerequisite can expose the next validation stage.
Safe response
PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — honor the decision and present clear instructions for enabling the scoped rule manually; never bypass consent by disabling firewall protection. PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — Preserve durable graph databases, group exports, identity certificates and invitation artifacts before changing them.
Instrumentation and regression coverage
PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — Capture the first failing call rather than a later cleanup result. PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — The decisive evidence is consent prompt result, requesting application, user/session, active firewall profile and whether the rule remains disabled.
| Regression layer | Case for PEER_E_FW_DECLINED | Pass condition |
|---|---|---|
| Input and object lifetime | PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — Construct the smallest object that reaches the user declined the request to enable firewall exceptions needed by Peer Collaboration. | PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — The test records the owning handle, user context and exact API from Peer Collaboration sign-in and Windows Firewall consent flow. |
| Controlled comparison | PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — repeat only through an explicit user-initiated test and observe the rule state after accepting versus declining. | PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — Only the intended invitation workflow changes between the failing and passing runs. |
| Recovery path | PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — honor the decision and present clear instructions for enabling the scoped rule manually; never bypass consent by disabling firewall protection. | PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — The intended operation succeeds without replacing unrelated user and firewall consent. |
PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — Keep unsigned hexadecimal HRESULT values, symbolic names and timestamps in the same trace. PEER_E_FW_DECLINED — That record lets a regression test distinguish this presence session from a later transport, authorization or application failure.
References
- Microsoft: About the Peer Collaboration API —
PEER_E_FW_DECLINEDuses this source for the documented peer boundary. - Microsoft: Collaboration API functions —
PEER_E_FW_DECLINEDuses this source for the documented peer boundary. - Microsoft: People Near Me requirements —
PEER_E_FW_DECLINEDuses this source for the documented peer boundary. - Microsoft: Windows Firewall rules —
PEER_E_FW_DECLINEDuses this source for the documented peer boundary.
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