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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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Why won't Windows XP firewall use domain settings on boot?

Although my XP workstations are connected to the domain, after booting firewall.cpl reports they're "using non-domain settings". Official literature tells me it's an issue with the DNS suffix of its connection not matching the DNS name on the last…
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Applying outbound connection rules PER USER in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

In the latest version of the Windows Firewall, included for example in Windows Server 2008 R2, you can block incoming connections and apply this rule only for a set of users (Users Tab in the rule properties). Why is this not possible for outbound…
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Is the firewall on Windows Server 2008 R2 sufficient?

I'm planning a few servers to be run on Rackspace cloud. Aside from using load balancers to control the flow of web traffic, how good is the Windows Firewall? I'm thinking in terms of throughput as well as security.
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Hardening a file-serving Windows Server 2019 instance

I'm in the process of re-configuring and securing a server for the small company that I work for. We use it to store design files and other data with Autodesk Vault. It's running on a VPS from a server provider close by. The reason I'm doing this is…
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What are differnet between local port and remote port of firewall in Windows 2016 server?

I use MS SQL 2017 Express Database server in my Windows 2016 server. I hope to expose MS SQL 2017 Express Database server to the internet, so I need open 1433 port in firewall. But I find there are two options, local port and remote port, you can…
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Server is listening in Port 110 and I can't find any way to disable or block it

I have a Windows 2012 R2 server used as web server, with ports for web (80, 443, and 8080) open for public sites hosted on it. Doing some security checks on it, I found it's listening on port 110 too: However, there is no POP3 service, or any…
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Copy a Windows Server Firewall address list from one rule to another using Powershell

I'm a little stuck on the documentation for the Firewall cmdlets in Windows server. I am trying to copy the address lists for the remote and local ips from one rule to another. I can get the list using Get-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "MSSQL" |…
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Cannot connect to anything above port 6000

I have an instance of Windows Server 2012 R2 running on Amazon Web Services. I am not able to make a TCP connection to the server on any port higher than 6000 for some reason. All ports below 6000 work, however. I've tested this with a short C#…
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Windows port forwarding, local machine to server

I'm working on Windows 8. I'm trying to connect to an OpenStack cloud which is hosted on a remote server but has a public IP to the API. However, making API calls require calls to additional services inside the cloud which still have the internal…
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Get-Process not working against remote Windows 7 clients

I have been trying to run Microsoft's GetNetworkStatistics script against remote computers to enable us to track what processes are using bandwidth along with other tools. I am unable to run the script against remote Windows 7 clients. It works fine…
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Windows Web Server Login Attempts

We have a cloud web server serving several e-commerce websites, which is running Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5. We access the server via RDC. After looking at the windows security log I can see many many login attempts, which are events: 4776…
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netsh advfirewall set store gpo: %COMPUTERNAME% does not work

I am in charge of a group of computers that process highly confidential data. They cannot be connected to the Internet or even the company network, only a network drive. So I wrote a batch file on the network drive and run it on each computer to…
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Windows 8 inbound IPsec authentication failing?

I am getting some very strange behavior out of the Windows 8 Advanced Firewall / IPsec implementation. It appears now that all inbound traffic that isn't return traffic from a previously contacted host is being dropped. Why? Background: I'm…
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Windows Firewall refusing connections unless logging turned on

From the Windows Mystery Caves: a user trying to access a Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Session Host is getting network timeouts upon connection establishment attempts. The Remote Desktop exception has been enabled and restricted (among…
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Windows Filtering Platform blocking packets for legitimate traffic

I am running into an issue with traffic from a webapp server to a database server being blocked or filtered. I have allowed inbound and outbound traffic on the needed ip and port with a firewall rule, but some packets/connections are still being…
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