TDM DataFinder Server Install Requires WIndows Firewall Service Running

[brent2004]

Just wanted to leave a note that during my TDM DataFinder Server 2017 Install I hit errors that took quite a bit of troubleshooting to resolve.  In summary the installer requires that the Windows Server OS has the Windows Firewall Service Running.  It seems our IT department uses other methods to protect the servers and not only turns windows firewall off, but actually disables the service.  The NI installer seems like it does not complete if it cannot communicate with the firewalls service to install specific rules for the TDM server.  Hope this helps save someone a few days of digging.

Symptoms of this issue are error dialogs saying: 
The "NI file service 17.0 for Windows 64-bit" installation has failed

The "NI RabbitMQ COnfiguration for Skyline Products" installation has failed.

The "NI Skyline Manager 17.0 for Windows 64-bit" installation has failed.

The " NI Skyline Database Service 17.0 for Windows" installation has failed.

[EasyToDo]

This issue should have been fixed with the 2018 release of Data Finder Server. If you would give the Data Finder Server 2018 Beta (ni.com/beta) a try to double check that would be great.