Restricting Access to FireWall via Group Policy

Hello,

Just have a quick question. I am trying to find a way to restrict my local client machines from accessing Windows Firewall. I could not find anything in Group Policy to stop access to the Windows Firewall. I know there is a policy to restrict access to the control panel altogether but I do not want to do that.

Any and all thoughts/Suggestions are much appreciated :cool
Thanks,

-A

 

im looking at my gpos and found it.

if you go into your gpo editor, computer config, admin templates, network, network connections, windows firewall, domain.

windows firewall: protect all network connections set to disabled. which will, i believe, still allow users to access the windows firewall but settings will be grayed out.

give that a try.

 

Will that disable the firewall altogether? Maybe I am reading it wrong.

"If you disable this policy Windows Firewall will not run"

I still want the local firewall to be running but I have some exceptions enabled I do not want them to have the option of toggling it on/off. The greyed out part sounds good but the not running part is not

 

ooh. actually i dont know. give it a try though and ill do the same. i got a laptop and a trial version of server 03 here ill try it on. that might just disable it all together...

 

ya I will give it a go and post back in a bit. Got a bunch of other stuff going on ATM :cool

 

You were on the right track Steve. I enabled it opposed to disabled and it achieves my desired results :cool

It greys out all Windows Firewall options except for "Don't allow exceptions" there has to be a way to grey that checkbox out as well.

 

the do not allow exceptions is the second option in the same place in the gpo editor. there are a lot of firewall gp settings in the editor to look through.

 

Ya I probally should've looked before posting :cool thanks

 

:-D no problem