Hey Windows Firewall fans, Senior Support Escalation Engineer David Pracht has published the following set of articles about understanding and troubleshooting why the Windows Firewall service fails to start in the Microsoft Enterprise Networking Team blog : Introduction Logon Permissions...

A new Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and Internet Protocol security (IPsec) video screencast is now available at http://edge.technet.com/Media/Windows-Firewall-with-Advanced-Security-and-IPsec-Content/ . This screencast describes the Microsoft content that is available for Windows Firewall...

The Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Troubleshooting Guide: Diagnostics and Tools has been updated to include information about Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. This guide describes how Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and Internet Protocol (IPsec) works, what the common troubleshooting...

The Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Design and Deployment Guide has been updated to include information for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This guide is an excellent way to learn how to design and deploy Windows Firewall and IPsec on your network.

At the Puget Sound Society for Technical Communication (STC) Competition Showcase held Tuesday, January 19, 2010, the following was awarded for Windows Server networking IT pro documentation: · Excellence award for the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Design and Deployment Guide , Dave Bishop...

The IPsec articles Introduction to Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and Step-by-Step Guide: Deploying Windows Firewall and IPsec Policies were updated for corrections and to more accurately reflect changes made to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. These two articles are an excellent way to...

I recently talked with my teammate and office neighbor Dave Bishop about his background as an IT administrator and trainer and his passion as a technical writer of networking technologies in Windows. Click here , and then click on the musical note graphic to open, download, and then play the audio...

This guide shows you how to centrally configure and distribute commonly used settings and rules for Windows Firewall with Advanced Security by describing typical tasks in common scenarios. You get hands-on experience in a lab environment using Group Policy management tools to create and edit GPOs to...

In this blog post , I described how you can provide us with ratings and comments for our topics on TechNet and MSDN through the Click to Rate and Give Feedback box. In July 2009, the following topics have been updated based on your comments: · Network Map Does Not Display Computers Running Windows...

In this WSUAN blog post , Dave Bishop and I presented a prototype for a new content type known as a learning roadmap . This content type guides novice or new-to-technology IT Pros through the prerequisite knowledge and the body of published content for a specific technology or end-to-end scenario using...

To help novice or new-to-technology IT Pros, the Windows Server User Assistance Networking Writing team is investigating the use of a new type of topic known as a learning roadmap . The learning roadmap steps a novice or new-to-technology IT Pro through the sets of technologies that are associated with...

In today’s interconnected world, we’re always looking for better ways to protect our computers from the threats on the Internet. Windows Firewall is an important piece of armor to include in your security arsenal. Windows Firewall can swap the set of rules it uses based on the type of network to which...