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When the Windows Firewall Service is disabled I cannot remote desktop (RDP) to the machine

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Mar 15, 202638751 views
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When the Windows Firewall Service is disabled I cannot remote desktop (RDP) to the machine. Has anyone seen this? This is on Win7 64 Enterprise on a domain. Is it some sort of domain policy perhaps? EDIT: Yes, when the firewall service is enabled, RDP works like a charm. I can also ping the system …

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Fix for: When the Windows Firewall Service is disabled I cannot remote desktop (RDP) to the machine

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Starting from Windows Vista disabling the Windows Firewall service is not doing what it did in Windows XP, because of the introduction of Windows Filtering Platform. What is more this practice is discouraged and explicitly not supported by Microsoft…

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