Similar to the Windows Vista firewall, the Windows Firewall with Advanced
Security is a stateful, host-based firewall that you can configure to allow or disallow
traffic that is generated by either a particular executable file, such as C:\Program
Files\Microsoft SQL Server\sqlserver.exe, or traffic that is destined for one or more
TCP or UDP ports, such as TCP port 80 for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
traffic. You’ll find that basic firewall configuration tasks haven’t changed much
between Windows XP and Windows Vista; you’ll continue to make these changes ...
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