Firewall Policies appear and then disappear

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From: Steve McGrath (smcgrath_at_no-spam.org)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:15:25 -0000

Hi,

Just something thats puzzling me. When I join a new XP machine using
server/connectcomputer I notice that there are a few firewall exceptions
settings applied to the machine via a policy. After some time, these
settings applied by a policy disappear and I'm left with the firewall
settings I manually created before running the connectcomputer wizard. I've
looked in the SBS Firewall policy and I can't find where to define
exceptions. Even if the exceptions were why would they inexplicably
disappear. Where exactly does SBS have the setting for the initially defined
exceptions and any guesses as to why the policy is not applied after several
reboots,,

Steve

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