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Where is the policy coming from? Is it a Windows 2003 Domain Controller or Windows 2008 Domain Controller? 
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Where is the policy coming from? Is it a Windows 2003 Domain Controller or Windows 2008 Domain Controller?

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Policy was linked at the wrong spot. &nbsp;It was only affecting workstations and not servers.
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Policy was linked at the wrong spot.  It was only affecting workstations and not servers.

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We have a GPO that automatically disables Windows Firewall on clients that are connected to our domain, unless, they are also connected to another untrusted network. &nbsp;We just installed a Windows 2008 server and it is not picking up this policy, and the firewall stays on unless it is manually turned off. &nbsp;Any way to make this server pick up the policy?
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We have a GPO that automatically disables Windows Firewall on clients that are connected to our domain, unless, they are also connected to another untrusted network.  We just installed a Windows 2008 server and it is not picking up this policy, and the firewall stays on unless it is manually turned off.  Any way to make this server pick up the policy?

Group Policy for Windows Firewall not picked up by Windows 2008 Server.

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.