Configuring Windows Firewall Group Policy

Contact your network administrator to determine if a Group Policy setting prevents programs and scenarios from running in a corporate environment. This post provides step by step technical support to configure Windows Group Policy.

Windows Firewall Group Policy settings are located in the following Group Policy Object Editor snap-in paths:
• Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Network/Network Connections/Windows Firewall
• Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Network/Network Connections/Windows Firewall/ Domain Profile
• Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Network/Network Connections/Windows Firewall/ Standard Profile

From these locations, you can configure the following Group Policy settings:
• Windows Firewall: Allow authenticated Internet Protocol security (IPsec) bypass
• Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections
• Windows Firewall: Do not allow exceptions
• Windows Firewall: Define program exceptions
• Windows Firewall: Allow local program exceptions
• Windows Firewall: Allow remote administration exception
• Windows Firewall: Allow file and print sharing exception
• Windows Firewall: Allow ICMP exceptions
• Windows Firewall: Allow Remote Desktop exception
• Windows Firewall: Allow Universal Plug and Plan (UpnP) framework exception
• Windows Firewall: Prohibit notifications
• Windows Firewall: Allow logging
• Windows Firewall: Prohibit unicast response to multicast or broadcast requests
• Windows Firewall: Define port exceptions
• Windows Firewall: Allow local port exceptions