Hey, I've been busy, OK? (Well, not really, but ....)

re: Hey, I've been busy, OK? (Well, not really, but ....)

Jude — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:55:00 GMT

Very Informative stuff. I could see that many organizations going into XP SP2 without really testing out if their applications or scripts that query the desktops.

I believe this will cause third party applications to force users to disable the firewall feature in XP.

Scripting is a two-edged sword

The Old New Thing — Thu, 06 May 2004 17:03:00 GMT

What's easy for you is easy for others.

re: Hey, I've been busy, OK? (Well, not really, but ....)

Siva Mateti — Thu, 06 May 2004 20:08:00 GMT

Cool :-)

re: Hey, I've been busy, OK? (Well, not really, but ....)

Mike Dimmick — Thu, 06 May 2004 22:46:00 GMT

Just a thought, but couldn't administrators set up a logon script that did this? Next time a user logs on, the change is applied (although I expect it requires admin privileges to make the change). Alternatively, you can probably configure it through Global Policy.

Now, a script which sets the global policy appropriately, that would be useful...

better not be something that a normal user can chahe

sjb — Mon, 10 May 2004 22:09:00 GMT

Mike, I'd be pretty peeved if a login script running in the users context can change these settings.

But then I am one of the people who believe that login scripts should only ever configure the users environment. Not only should they not modify the system config, they shouldn't even have the rights to do it.

re: Hey, I've been busy, OK? (Well, not really, but ....)

Philip — Fri, 14 May 2004 17:14:00 GMT

Does ICF in pre-SP2 XP have an object model that can be scripted against as well? MSDN seems to think so (e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/intconnsharingfirewall.asp) but when you drill down a bit more it starts talking about Windows Firewall, which is SP2.

The reason I'm asking is because I'm trying to put together a quarantine-checking script for Windows 2003 VPN and I want to make sure that any XP clients have got their firewalls enabled before they connect to us.

メモ: Windows Firewall (Windows XP SP2) をスクリプトで制御

システム管理な雑記 -- Sleeve notes of a sysadmin -- — Wed, 19 May 2004 18:56:00 GMT

??: Windows Firewall (Windows XP SP2) ?????????

メモ: Windows Firewall (Windows XP SP2) をスクリプトで制御

システム管理な雑記 -- Sleeve notes of a sysadmin -- — Wed, 19 May 2004 18:57:00 GMT

??: Windows Firewall (Windows XP SP2) ?????????

XP SP2 Windows Firewall

ICodeThereForeIAm — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:32:00 GMT

XP SP2 Windows Firewall

ICodeThereForeIAm — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:32:00 GMT

re: Hey, I've been busy, OK? (Well, not really, but ....)

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