Enabling Network Discovery via GPO does not work when Windows Firewall turned on

Fabio Navacchi 1 Reputation point
2022-02-14T16:46:37.08+00:00

Environment: Windows domain

I'm trying to turn on network discovery and I've created a computer-targeted GPO
I create a test OU and put one computer in said OU and apply GPO to the computer. I then run gpupdate /force on the targeted machine and restart the computer. I then run gpresult /scope computer /v and confirm that the GPO is being applied.
But when i go on the computer client the network discovery and file sharing is turn off (control panel).
It seems that when the firewall on client is off the network is on and viceversa when the firewall is on this rule is off.

I’ve:

  1. enable LLTDIO and RSPNDR
  2. enable the preset configuration of the firewall for network discovery and file and print sharing
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  1. Dave Patrick 341.5K Reputation points MVP
    2022-02-14T22:58:15.533+00:00

    Will they stay on if turned on here?

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  2. Fabio Navacchi 1 Reputation point
    2022-02-15T07:04:23.387+00:00

    correct, is totally unmanaged but the policies are applied correctly

  3. Dave Patrick 341.5K Reputation points MVP
    2022-02-15T17:04:57.617+00:00

    Might doble check these ones are allowed.

    Network Discovery (LLMNR-UDP-In)
    Network Discovery (NB-Datagram-In)
    Network Discovery (NB-Name-In)
    Network Discovery (Pub-WSD-In)
    Network Discovery (SSDP-In)
    Network Discovery (UPnP-In)
    Network Discovery (WSD Events-In)
    Network Discovery (WSD EventsSecure-In)
    Network Discovery (WSD-In)

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  4. Fabio Navacchi 1 Reputation point
    2022-02-16T11:24:20.547+00:00

    all allowed correctly but still doesn't work

  5. Luciano De Souza 1 Reputation point
    2022-08-05T18:43:32.507+00:00

    Hello, someone found a solution to the problem of the UP Firewall in the domain.