pantscat Posted June 18, 2012 Posted June 18, 2012 Just wondering... Does anyone "deploy" windows firewall settings via Group Policy and limit outgoing connections? rather than the default allow? A bit of background: I'm currently trying to find ways to disable the P2P features of Spotify (it upsets my Forefront TMG firewall) and one of the most obvious ways I can see to do it is via a Windows Firewall rule. However, in order to do this I need to explicitly define all outgoing ports and I'm lazy and not sure I can be bothered. Meh. Maybe one to tackle on a day other than a Monday!
themightymrp Posted June 18, 2012 Posted June 18, 2012 I use it to deploy a couple of settings, namely I allow certain ports for Sophos update to work correctly. It is a boring process though. Oh and I also enable or disable File and Print Sharing based on where the machine is - sometimes we don't want it enable
chazzy2501 Posted June 18, 2012 Posted June 18, 2012 yup i use gpo for firewall works great! I limit file sharing to only my workstation, Allow ICMP echo, port exceptions for the AV software MMS and RTSPU streaming and program exceptions for the PCE software.
themightymrp Posted June 18, 2012 Posted June 18, 2012 Ahh yes, I allow the ICMP echo's too so that I can do ping tests
pantscat Posted June 18, 2012 Author Posted June 18, 2012 Ah... ok, so outgoing policies are more popular than I thought! Hmm... clearly I should spend some time looking at Netstat!
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