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"Windows Firewall" refers to the built in client firewall utility that ships with the Windows operating system. (It was previously named the Internet Connection Firewall.) By default, all Windows operating systems since Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 have shipped with this client.

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"Windows Firewall" refers to the built in client firewall utility that ships with the Windows operating system. (It was previously named the Internet Connection Firewall.) By default, all Windows operating systems since Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 have shipped with this client.

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PsExec Slow to connect when Windows Firewall Enabled

Situation: Running PsExec takes 20 seconds with the Windows firewall active, and 1 second with it disabled. Exceptions added to the firewall: opened ports 135 and 445 (both tcp) as per…
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Can firewall block packets visible in Wireshark?

Wireshark shows that an RTP package is received on a PC. Is it possible that despite detection by Wireshark, something (firewall?) is still prevent the application listening to the required port on that PC to receive the package? Example. Wireshark…
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Windows firewall logging. Log file is always blank

I have read many similar articles and posts on how to enable windows firewall logging. I have Win2k8r2 server without any Active Directory, DC, domains and other complicated stuff. Almost all of this article references to GPO and enabling it. The…
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How do you disable "stealth mode" on Windows Server 2008?

After reading this article and this one I've decided to change all our firewalls to reject instead of block packets in most cases. My experience corroborates the arguments these articles make. Unfortunately, Windows 2008 R2 uses the so-called…
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Windows Firewall IP ban?

OK, question: I have a IIS webserver and Windows firewall. To allow incoming connections to IIS, I enabled port 80 and 8080. But now, how can I block a specific IP address/range on port 80 (=ban) with windows firewall ?
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How do I disable the firewall on a single interface in Windows 7?

We're using openvpn to provide access back from XP to work. We use AD policies to ensure the XP firewall is up when off the domain and down when on the domain. With openvpn, you end up with a new network interface, and when you're off the domain and…
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Windows File Sharing not working

We have a workstation on our domain that we need to share a printer from, and it's not working. I also set up a shared folder to help with testing. Details: We are on a domain. All operations performed by a domain admin account. Group Policy has…
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For an internet-facing, all-roles-in-one Exchange server, what do I need to let through the firewall?

As the result of a recent penetration test, in which we did not fare well, it has been brought to my attention that our internet facing, all-roles-in-one, Exchange 2010 SP3 server has no firewall in place, and is therefore completely exposed to the…
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Windows firewall blocking network shares through VPN server

I have a VPN server in front of a 172.16.0.0/24 network. On my client side is a 192.168.1.0/24 network. I am able to successfully VPN in to the server network from the client, and I am trying to mount a network share through TCP IP (e.g.,…
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Does Windows Firewall have the ability to log which exe is blocked?

We would like to distribute a firewall program with our product. I can configure the Windows Firewall to block outgoing connections (which it does not by default) netsh advfirewall set allprofiles firewallpolicy blockinbound,blockoutbound But then I…
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Can I use Win 2k8 R2 as an IPSEC client?

I'm trying to connect a win server 2008 R2 box to a juniper ssg firewall using a client-to-gateway IPSEC VPN. I tried to set it up in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, but the connection doesn't appear to work. Would love to hear from someone…
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Windows firewall blocks nearly all traffic after reboot?

Sometimes when the systems boot they don't accept any inbound traffic at all and my IPSec rules don't work outbound - it appears that the server is stuck in some kind of initial post boot configuration. This is primarily for 2008 r2 and Windows 7.…
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Enable file and print sharing command line - how to enable it just for profile=private

I know that the following cmd can enable file and print sharing firewall rule: netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="File and Printer Sharing" new enable=yes But it turns on file and print sharing for all profiles. I'd like to only enable it…
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Configure Windows Firewall to block all except for specific traffic

I'm trying to configure Windows Firewall on Server 2008 R2 to block everything except for the traffic that I add to the rule list. I see there are three policies - public/private/domain. I've been making the same setting changes to each one, though…
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Firewall "Connection Security" when there is no trust and NATing between the two computers

First a little explanation of my network topology. I have a internal domain, and edge network domain. There is no trust between the two domains (and IT will not allow a one way trust to be set up between the internal and the edge network…
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