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you will need to restart your machine for this setting to kick in as it alters a service
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you will need to restart your machine for this setting to kick in as it alters a service

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Tried that, tried logging off. 
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run a gpresult and see if the policy is being filtered out
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run a gpresult and see if the policy is being filtered out

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wait, how did you configure this, computer config yes? are you applying to the computers OU
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wait, how did you configure this, computer config yes? are you applying to the computers OU

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Is it Small Business Server by any chance? If so there is a specific GPO called &quot;Small Business Server Windows Firewall&quot; that needs to be configured.
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Is it Small Business Server by any chance? If so there is a specific GPO called "Small Business Server Windows Firewall" that needs to be configured.

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ok, so its specified in the OU for the group policy i am in... it simply does not pick up the firewall settings at all for some reason...
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ok, so its specified in the OU for the group policy i am in... it simply does not pick up the firewall settings at all for some reason...

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thanks Jay Jay, adding the computer fixed it. I guess that *kinda* makes sense...
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thanks Jay Jay, adding the computer fixed it. I guess that *kinda* makes sense...

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The title says it all. I have firewall set to disable in the group policy, after using gpupdate the computer clearly picks up the group policy but the firewall remains changable and on. I figured this would be straightforward, guess not. The firewall is disabled in domain and standard. It was tested on a brand new XP SP2 computer with all updates. Any ideas?
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The title says it all. I have firewall set to disable in the group policy, after using gpupdate the computer clearly picks up the group policy but the firewall remains changable and on. I figured this would be straightforward, guess not. The firewall is disabled in domain and standard. It was tested on a brand new XP SP2 computer with all updates. Any ideas?

Group Policy - Windows Firewall... Does nothing

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