Disabled Firewall rules keeps coming back on Win10 LTSC 2021(21H2)

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Disabled Firewall rules keeps coming back on Win10 LTSC 2021(21H2)

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Hi, I have disabled few default Windows Firewall rules in the Inbound & Outbound rules, but whenever a new user is created these settings gets enabled on its own, also few additional settings comes up. Is there a way to stop the disabled FW rules from coming back ?

Work or school account, Xbox Game UI, Your account etc.

I think its being copied from the defaultuser0 user profile.

Anonymous

2024-07-17T14:44:13.32+00:00

Hello,

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Anonymous

Hi Vimal Raj,

Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.

It is recommended that you use the Win+r shortcut key to type gpedit.msc to open the Group Policy Editor and navigate to the location shown below.

The following configuration can control whether the local firewall rules are effective. Yes means that the local firewall rules are effective. Select no, indicating that the local firewall rules are invalid.

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In Settings, this "Apply local firewall rules" configuration item determines: after the various stacking/exiting rules are configured and pushed in the group policy, whether the additional customized "rules" on the local firewall can also be applied and effective.

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Best regards

Zunhui

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Anonymous

2024-07-18T10:25:15.82+00:00

Hi Zunhui,

Thanks for getting back. I'm having Standalone systems in my environment and I add few Firewall rules necessary for my application and its done via PS script along with .xml. It's not on a domain and hence don't use Group policy to set Firewall. The Rule merging setting that you specified can only be applied by using GPO. I'm looking for a solution that will stop any default windows Firewall settings from getting created whenever a new user is created.
Anonymous

2024-07-22T15:08:16.2366667+00:00

Hi Vimal Raj,

You may have some misunderstandings. I am suggesting that you can use your GPO to manage Windows firewall rules. This is not only for the domain but also for the public and private firewall rules you set.

Best regards

Zunhui
Anonymous

2024-07-24T09:34:46.36+00:00

Hi Zunhui,

Thanks I get it. I'm using scripts to add FW rules instead of GPO due to some restrictions in my org. I'm deploying images via Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and use scripts to add FW rules along with other items. So can't really use GPO to set the rules.

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