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You may need to re-enable the firewall then audit the WFP events to determine what exceptions need to be added.<br />
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Here is a blog on how to enable auditing to figure out what needs to be done.<br />
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<a href="http://blogs.technet.com/instan/archive/2009/01/08/the-windows-filtering-platform-has-blocked-a-bind-to-a-local-port.aspx" rel="ugc">http://blogs.technet.com/instan/archive/2009/01/08/the-windows-filtering-platform-has-blocked-a-bind-to-a-local-port.aspx</a>
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You may need to re-enable the firewall then audit the WFP events to determine what exceptions need to be added.

Here is a blog on how to enable auditing to figure out what needs to be done.

http://blogs.technet.com/instan/archive/2009/01/08/the-windows-filtering-platform-has-blocked-a-bind-to-a-local-port.aspx [http://blogs.technet.com/instan/archive/2009/01/08/the-windows-filtering-platform-has-blocked-a-bind-to-a-local-port.aspx]

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So there is no way to disable the WFP?
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Did you look for and attempt to disable the BFE service?
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Did you look for and attempt to disable the BFE service?

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How do I disable the Windows Filtering Platform. &nbsp;I keep having sporadic difficulties with connections to my SQL server, and usually I see the Windows Filtering Platform involved. &nbsp;I have disabled the Windows firewall, as I sit behind a hardware firewall, and it seems that this filtering platform is a new 'other' firewall, but I cannot set exceptions for it. &nbsp;So how can I turn it off?
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How do I disable the Windows Filtering Platform.  I keep having sporadic difficulties with connections to my SQL server, and usually I see the Windows Filtering Platform involved.  I have disabled the Windows firewall, as I sit behind a hardware firewall, and it seems that this filtering platform is a new 'other' firewall, but I cannot set exceptions for it.  So how can I turn it off?

Disabling Windows Filtering Platform

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OS Security

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