Thanks again Brian for your input that is exactly the policy I've been
working with and I still haven't been able to get the Firewall to the point
to where I can manipulate it.
Thanks again!
"Brian Cryer" <not.here@localhost> wrote in message
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>> Hello All,
>>
>> I just setup SBS 2008 Standard with Windows 7 Professional
>> network/Domain. I'm having issues with the the firewall on all the pc's
>> being greyed out
>
> On 2003 (so I assume its the same with 2008) there is a policy setting to
> enable/disable the firewall on member pcs. I tend to ensure that the
> firewall is enabled and that user's can't turn it off.
>
> Under 2003 the relevant settings are found in the polcy under:
> Computer Configuration > Administrative templates > Network > Network
> Connections > Windows Firwall > Domain Profile
>
> Just checked and it looks the same in 2008.
>
> If you have "Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections" set to
> disabled then no-one will be able to use the Windows firewall, if enabled
> then everyone has to use it. I suspect that's the setting you are after.
>
>> I've done ALOT of reseach on this and haven't been able to resolve the
>> issue. I'm comfortable in the group policy area and I've followed the
>> suggested practice of disabling the Network connection on the Domain
>> level and there where multiple suggestions and I tried them all(all that
>> I have found anyway). One suggested configuring the local policies for
>> the the Domain level and I did that as well. I'm hoping someone else has
>> a few thoughts on this. Also, a seperate issue I'm not able to get my
>> scripts working, meaning I've created a fairly start forward script on
>> the Server tied the user profile to the script in AD and I can't seem to
>> connect to the mapping in the script, I can do a drive mapping with no
>> problem but that isn't very effecient.
>
> Hope this helps.
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> Brian Cryer
> http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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