How to switch off Windows firewall using Group policy?
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Are you wanting to do this through a Domain or just locally? The above explanation is if you are running active directory. If you want to do it locally you can use gpedit.msc from a run command. Then you set under Computer Config > Administrative Templates > Network > Network connections > Windows Firewall standard profile. Here is where you can set firewall stuff. Set the "Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections to Disabled.
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by: jhyieslaPosted on 2008-06-12 at 09:31:31ID: 21771187
In your ADUC create a GPO and set under Computer Config > Administrative Templates > Network > Network connections > Windows Firewall > Domain Profile (also did standard profile)...Here is where you can set firewall stuff. We just wanted to disable it for certain PCs so I set the "Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections to Disabled. Did it in both Domain and standard profile...although I don't know that I had to do it in both. Then you assign the appropriate PCs to the policy in ADUC and you're done.
The assigning can be done in a couple of ways. You can create an OU with the appropriate GPO assigned to it and put your PCs in that OU or you can create security groups with that GPO and associate the PCs as members of the group.