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Re:Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google. by vetinari on Thursday February 07, 2013 @09:42AM (#5182250)
"You are doing it wrong".

You do not lock the apps by IP, because they run on many different machines in different data centers. What is running on specific machine is dynamic, based on momentary requirements.

If you do not want to allow Google Hangouts, use your administrator console.

Re:Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google. by freehunter on Thursday February 07, 2013 @03:26PM (#5184306)
It's not quite that simple due to the VPN and proxy configurations we have. Google Hangouts just will not work over a VPN unless it's allowed directly through the firewall, which requires a firewall rule. Typically firewall rules are based on IP addresses and ports. Allowed Google Hangouts (which we want) also has the side effect of allowing Chrome Remote Desktop (which we don't want) directly through the firewall.

"You are doing it wrong" is not an acceptable answer in an enterprise environment unless the vendor is willing to work with their customers to make sure it's possible to actually do it right. But that would mean the vendor would need real customer service...