How administrators can close ports used by Live Mesh sync settings for file transfer

As a file synchronization engine, Live Mesh will try to transfer files across devices either through the Live Mesh cloud or through a peer-to-peer (P2P) channel. P2P connections are established by opening ports for incoming traffic. In some cases, network administrators want to block this P2P traffic on their networks. This article tells network administrator how to do this.

By default, Live Mesh will try to register a Windows Firewall exception for the process that manages these socket connections. This process is Moe.exe, which resides in the user’s application data directory. You can explicitly block exceptions that are registered for the Moe.exe process or block traffic on the range of ports that Live Mesh uses for P2P communication. (Live Mesh uses a port range of 30000 to 40000.)