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Mastering Windows Group Policy
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Mastering Windows Group Policy

by Jordan Krause
November 2018
Beginner
408 pages
10h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Disabling Windows Firewall by policy

We just finished forcing all Windows Firewall profiles to be enabled by policy, so why don't we now do an about face and try the opposite. Sometimes there is a business case for disabling the built-in Windows Firewall on all workstations. While I do not personally recommend this approach, perhaps you have a third-party firewall tool for which you forked over a lot of cash, and aren't ready to give it up yet. Multiple firewalling tools on the same machine sounds like it would be super safe, but in reality they get nasty with each other and cause all kinds of problems as they fail to coexist. So, let's pretend we now have the need to forcibly disable Windows Firewall on the client system—all three firewall ...

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