diff --git a/cookbooks/arcgis-desktop/recipes/licensemanager-set-port.rb b/cookbooks/arcgis-desktop/recipes/licensemanager-set-port.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55062fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cookbooks/arcgis-desktop/recipes/licensemanager-set-port.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#
+# Cookbook Name:: arcgis-desktop
+# Recipe:: licensemanager-set-port
+#
+# Copyright 2015 Esri
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+# Not sure if you are going to update license manager in the future but it 
+# would be cool to have a recipe that allows the user to set static ports 
+# for their firewall. I made one for N2W but I know yours would be a lot 
+# better with parameters and such. 
+# Also this was just build for Windows.
+ruby_block 'Set static port after install' do
+  block do
+    file = Chef::Util::FileEdit.new('C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ArcGIS\\LicenseManager\\bin\\service.txt')
+    file.search_file_replace_line(/^SERVER this_host/, 'SERVER this_host ANY 27000')
+    file.search_file_replace_line(/^VENDOR ARCGIS/, 'VENDOR ARCGIS PORT=5152')
+    file.write_file
+  end
+end
+
diff --git a/roles/arcgis-licensemanager.json b/roles/arcgis-licensemanager.json
index a51a3d8..b5fa3c2 100644
--- a/roles/arcgis-licensemanager.json
+++ b/roles/arcgis-licensemanager.json
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
     }
   },
   "run_list":[
-    "recipe[arcgis-desktop::licensemanager]"
+    "recipe[arcgis-desktop::licensemanager]",
+    "recipe[arcgis-desktop::licensemanager-set-port]"
   ]
-}
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+}