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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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Configure Windows Firewall using GPO: Logging file path cannot be set

We are having a strange issue with Windows Firewall setting. The logging file path cannot be set. After I have enabled the Logging setting and click on OK to save the setting. When I open up logging settings again, the logging file path check box is…
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Curious about some failures with DCDIAG

I ran a c:\dcidag /v /c /e test (/v = verbose, /c = comprehensive, /e = every DC) on all of my (currently) 5 Domain Controllers, and received this summary of results at the end: Aut. B s. Reenv. Del. Din.…
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AWS Security Groups vs Windows Firewall

Is it considered best practice to disable the Windows Firewall on an Amazon EC2 instance, and control traffic only via EC2 Security Groups? If I open a port on the server firewall, and then open the same port on the security group, it requires…
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Does a public webserver need to accept incoming from more than port 80?

Probably in than email is outgoing means servers have to reply but beyond that, what's the bare minimum portlist that a public-facing webserver (iis7 with same-box sql) have to admit?
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Why aren't "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security/Connection security rules" and netsh in sync?

The screenshot pretty much says it all: consec http://uppix.net/7/3/4/eeb1c6e949b90932ca3bd8bfbda47.png I don't understand. If I create rules in the MMC snap-in, they don't appear in netsh, if I create rules in netsh, they don't appear in the MMC…
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What Firewall Rules for Audit Collection Service in SCOM 2012

What Firewall Ports or Rules do I have to Configure, to enable the Forwarders to Connect to the ACS Collector? When the Firewall on Collector is enabled, no Forwarder can connect to the Collector, When the Firewall on Collector is disabled, the…
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How do I configure Windows Firewall for FTP Server

What ports do I need to open for me to be able to access Windows FTP server (running on Server 2008) for both active and passive FTP? Opening 21 on it's own is not enough.
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Remote Computer Management from Active Directory Snap-In fails with DCOM error 10006

So here's a little background. Our system originally started with Windows Server 2003 machines and eventually over time expanded and grew. We still have a few Server 2003's but they're being removed. Our domain controllers were recently upgraded…
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Block inbound port 80, 443 traffic except specific IP addresses

I'm trying to set up a firewall to only permit inbound traffic on ports 80 and 443 from specific IP addresses. I tried creating a rule to block all traffic on TCP, local port 80 and 443, then I added a rule to allow the same from a specific remote…
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Is there any danger in disabling windows firewall on a azure worker role?

I'm trying to troubleshoot a bug on our Azure worker role where we occasionally get the error "Unable to read data from the transport connection: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine". This error occurs when we…
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is it possible to configure Hyper-V host to block certain traffic for guests?

I have Windows 2008 R2 server with Hyper-V role enabled, and a number of Hyper-V VMs. Of of the VMs is CentOS SIP server. I want to block all incoming traffic from external IP address on certain ports - 80, 443, etc. Basically I want to be able to…
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Block all public IP addresses except those whitelisted

We have a 2008 R2 server hosted in a data centre where we have no physical access but connect to it using RDP. We plan to run SQL Server and some other services which should only be accessible to a limited number of static WAN IP…
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Remote management issues

I have HyperV Server 2012 R2 installed and I've opened ports in the firewall to allow remote snapins to connect. They mostly work, but, for example, the logical disk manager connects and shows information, but refreshing doesn't work. I get no…
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Securing Windows Firewall connections for Windows Server 2012

I have Windows Server 2012 at Amazon EC2 in non-domain environment. I need to remote desktop into it and also connect to Microsoft SQL server instance running on it. In addition to opening these ports in Windows Firewall I'd like to make that more…
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Windows 2008 R2 Server: Network zones (Public / Private / Domain) Seem to change randomly

So far on 2 occasions we have noticed that the network zones assigned to our server nics has been changed without any interaction on our part. This is out of a few hundred servers we manage. Case 1) Server 2008R2, 2 Network Adapters. 1 x LAN labeled…
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