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

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

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.

I hope the information above is helpful.

Best regards

Zunhui

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