Turning off firewall cut off doamin server/ pcs from network.

I did the suggestion in the related solution and it cut off all network, internet acces for all servers under that domain, including user's PCs.

I thought disabling the firewall would have just turn off all firewalls.
Does anyone know why it cut everything off as well?

Windows Server 2008Microsoft Legacy OSMicrosoft Server OS

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afurness

8/22/2022 - Mon

Jaoibh

9/9/2010

In server 2008 R2 when you disable the firewall it restarts the network adapter to stop the service

afurness

9/9/2010

ASKER

Ah ok, that makes sense.
So I assume it would have all come back after a few minutes then?

Jaoibh

9/9/2010

I would have said a few seconds after it restarts itself

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afurness

9/9/2010

ASKER

hmmm, it definitely went down for about 5 minutes.
In the end I had to log onto a local console for the server and set that setting back to "not configured" after a few minutes, everything came back.

dannyyo

9/9/2010

You must have changed some settings. At a default state, meaning after fresh install onf Windows server 2008, if I turn off the firewall everything still works. You'll have to check the "local security policy" settings.

Jaoibh

9/9/2010

I've been using Server 2008 R2 for the last year the problem is I've only disabled the firewall once.
I remember it kicking me off my RDP connection then I set a ping server -t waited for it to come up and it worked fine.

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Darius Ghassem

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