windows firewall

Hello,
I have a sbs2008 server, all seems to be running fine on it. Just did a BPA
for exchange 2007. It tells me the windows firewall is running. Should it
be? I have a hardware firewall, and I don't remember turning on the windows
firewall when I did the migration.

TIA

In article <#>, says...
> I have a sbs2008 server, all seems to be running fine on it. Just did a BPA
> for exchange 2007. It tells me the windows firewall is running. Should it
> be? I have a hardware firewall, and I don't remember turning on the windows
> firewall when I did the migration.
>

The two firewalls are not the same thing.

A firewall device/appliance, if you have a real one, protects your
entire network.

The Windows firewall only protects the server itself.

SBS installs the windows firewall on the server and auto-configures it
for things that SBS is aware of.

--
You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
Trust yourself.
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Thank you, now I understand.
Yes my hardware firewall is a real one, a sonicwall.


"Leythos" <> wrote in message
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> In article <#>, says...
>> I have a sbs2008 server, all seems to be running fine on it. Just did a
>> BPA
>> for exchange 2007. It tells me the windows firewall is running. Should
>> it
>> be? I have a hardware firewall, and I don't remember turning on the
>> windows
>> firewall when I did the migration.
>>
>
> The two firewalls are not the same thing.
>
> A firewall device/appliance, if you have a real one, protects your
> entire network.
>
> The Windows firewall only protects the server itself.
>
> SBS installs the windows firewall on the server and auto-configures it
> for things that SBS is aware of.
>
> --
> You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
> voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
> Trust yourself.
> (remove 999 for proper email address)

In article <#>, says...
> Thank you, now I understand.
> Yes my hardware firewall is a real one, a sonicwall.
>

Because of a number of third party apps that run on many of our SBS
installations, I have the SBS firewall disabled on more than half of the
installations we maintain - not an approved method, and you get a
warning about it, but we've not had any issues yet.

--
You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
Trust yourself.
(remove 999 for proper email address)