Re: SBS 2003 and XP SP2

From: Frank McCallister SBS MVP (anonymous)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 23:02:26 -0600

Hi Ron

Download this Hotfix

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D70097C2-4317-40E0-B7DA-FEB52C6B6386&displaylang=en

Also from a post in another NG

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Windows Firewall Group Policy settings are located in the following Group
Policy Object Editor snap-in paths:

- Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Network/Network
Connections/Windows Firewall
- Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Network/Network
Connections/Windows Firewall/ Domain Profile
- Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Network/Network
Connections/Windows Firewall/ Standard Profile

>From these locations, you can configure the following Group Policy settings:

- Windows Firewall: Allow authenticated Internet Protocol security (IPSec)
bypass
- Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections
- Windows Firewall: Do not allow exceptions
- Windows Firewall: Define program exceptions
- Windows Firewall: Allow local program exceptions
- Windows Firewall: Allow remote administration exception
- Windows Firewall: Allow file and print sharing exception
- Windows Firewall: Allow ICMP exceptions
- Windows Firewall: Allow Remote Desktop exception
- Windows Firewall: Allow Universal Plug and Plan (UpnP) framework exception
- Windows Firewall: Prohibit notifications
- Windows Firewall: Allow logging
- Windows Firewall: Prohibit unicast response to multicast or broadcast
requests
- Windows Firewall: Define port exceptions
- Windows Firewall: Allow local port exceptions

For more information about Windows Firewall Group Policy settings, download
the following white paper:

Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft Windows XP with Service
Pack 2:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/a/68a81446-cd73-4a61-8665-8a67781ac4e8/WF_XPSP2.doc

**** Replaced by download link *** You can contact PSS to ask for the
Windows Server 2003 version of the 842933 hot fix so that you can edit the
group policy settings on the
server. We can also configure the server side group policy settings on a
Windows XP SP2 computer using the following steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type "mmc" (without the quotation marks), and
then click OK.

2. On the File menu, click "Add/Remove Snap-in".

3. In the "Add/Remove Snap-in" dialog box, click Add.

4. In the "Add Standalone Snap-in" dialog box, click Group Policy, and then
click Add.

5. In the Select Group Policy Object dialog box, Local Computer appears as
the target object. Click Browse, select the Small Business Server
Client Computer GPO, and then click OK.

6. Click Close.

7. Click OK.

8. Go to Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Network/Network
Connections/Windows Firewall and you can configure Program
Exceptions.

9. When the client computers restarts the settings will be applied. You can
ask the users to run the following command to get the policies applied
immediately:

gpupdate /force

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-- 
Frank McCallister SBS MVP
COMPUMAC
"ron gabaree" <rgabaree@adelphia.net> wrote in message 
news:3NSdnYIPZ4Zc2RHcRVn-1Q@adelphia.com...
> Hello all,
>
> I have joined an XP Pro PC (with SP2) to an SBS2003 domain. The firewall 
> in
> XP is turned on by default. I am unable to turn the firewall off because 
> it
> is controlled by Group Objects.
>
> Anyone know how to turn this off?
>
> Thank You,
>
> Ron
>
>

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