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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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A Windows Filtering Platform filter has been changed - File and Printer Sharing

My Windows 2008 R2 server gets hammered tons of login attempts. I guess somebody is running a Brute Force attack. Funny enough our MySQL configuration file got deleted last night, so they must have gotten in somehow. But at the same time my event…
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How to block an outbound connection to a specific location

We have a server that is making calls to a specific url, such as https://this.server.name/folder/folder2/... The devs do not know what code is making calls to this location and want me to block it in order to generate errors in the logs that we can…
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Firewall configuration for SQL Server 2012 Express on Windows Server 2008 R2 for Workgroup

We are attempting to configure a server application to run on Windows Server 2008 R2 using SQL Server 2012 Express. With the server firewall turned off completely the application can communicate just fine with the server, but when the firewall is…
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Windows Firewall deployed by GPO detecting Public NL

Am struggling with Server 2008 R2 NLA and the Windows Firewall. Currently we are testing rolling out Windows Firewall via GP and have a test server that enables the firewall for Domain, Private and Public. Public and Private are set to lock down…
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How to prevent Skype DDOS

Is there a way to monitor number of attempted Skype connections on a specified port and dynamically firewall off the offending IPs if they break a certain threshhold within a specific time limit - in Windows 7? On a Linux box, though it's a bit…
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Windows Server 2008: Limit UDP/TCP packets per IP or ban

How I can limit UDP/TCP packets per IP send to my host (or better PORT) per second or minute ? Would be nice to ban that IP for 12/24 hours or even for ever. I got Windows Server 2008 and I'm very poor in Windows administration but quite good in…
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Allow incoming connections on Windows Server 2008 R2

Good day people. First, im new to Windows Server. I've always used Linux/Apache combo, but, my client has and AWS EC2 Windows Server 2008 R2 instance and he wants everything in there. Im working with IIS and PHP enabled as Fast-CGI and everything is…
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Can't connect to ftp port 21

I installed ftp server on Windows 2003, enabled 21 port in Firewall and I can connect "telnet localhost 21" but can't connect "telnet 77.168.0.1 21" What it can be?
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Firewall can't block?

A certain computer in my LAN has been hammering the Domain Controller with event 4768 (authentication failure). After conferring with the 'owner' of that computer, it's found out that there's a malware in that computer. We plan on copying the…
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Is there another interface that I can use to manage the firewall in Windows 2008?

I hate the interface for managing firewall in Widows Server 2008. Is there another GUI interface that I can use? Free is great but I'd even accept a 3rd party solution.
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How to configure Windows Firewall to protect the external interface but not the internal one?

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, running the Edge role of Lync Server 2010. One internal network interface connected to the company LAN, configured with a private IP address, subnet mask, internal DNS servers and no default gateway. One external…
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How do I configure Windows Firewall to permit MSRPC?

I am trying to configure endpoint machines with a firewall that only allows white-listed traffic, and all other connections are blocked. The client machines are desktops and laptops running Windows 7 (both x86 and x64) using the built-in Windows…
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Windows Filtering Platform blocking packets from workstations on a Domain Controller

Our primary DNS server (as dictated by our DHCP configuration) is running Windows Server 2008 R2 and is also one of our Domain Controllers. In its Security event log we can see that there are hundreds of Failure Audits in the Filtering Platform…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Firewall -- Block ICMP except specific IPs

this is half a minute work with any firewall, but with the built-in firewall on Windows 2008 R2, I am stuck here for half an hour. I want to block all incoming ICMP requests to my server, EXCEPT those IP addresses that I want. My firewall policy is…
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A software firewall with web interface / login possibilities for single windows server

We have a single web server with SQL server etc (all MS, server 2008 web etc). We need to allow access to the database directly so our customer can write reports (it's the way SSRS is!). We original had the DB just sitting on the internet, you…
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