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Cheers thats got me off to a good start! Now im looking at the firewall &nbsp;being off the domain and then on on the home and public networks. I cant see a group policy rule for this? Any ideas?
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There should be Domain area and the other one is what you want - Standard<br />
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In Computer Configuration -&gt; Polices -&gt; Administrative Templates -&gt; Network - Network Connections -&gt; Windows Firewall
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Basically we have a load of windows 7 machines and i need to be able to control the public networks firewall so its on. Does anyone have a ADM template?
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Basically we have a load of windows 7 machines and i need to be able to control the public networks firewall so its on. Does anyone have a ADM template?

Cheers thats got me off to a good start! Now im looking at the firewall  being off the domain and then on on the home and public networks. I cant see a group policy rule for this? Any ideas?

There should be Domain area and the other one is what you want - Standard

In Computer Configuration -&gt; Polices -&gt; Administrative Templates -&gt; Network - Network Connections -&gt; Windows Firewall

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