Re: Active Directory administration and "personal" firewalls

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 08/21/02


From: "Roger Abell" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 01:28:39 -0700


"Fred Arbco" <fred7@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote in message
news:2fc9056f.0208201557.556e17db@posting.google.com...
> I'm investigating the possibility of configuring a domain and I had a
> security related question...
>
> In an W2K AD environment (with 2000/XP clients in a W2K domain), do
> personal (software) firewall products (or others I guess) interfere
> with the ability of domain admins to send administrative messages to
> the clients (ie: viewing files, registry changes, other policy
> enforcement, etc.)?
>
> I guess another angle of asking is whether the server-to-client
> communication is all via TCP/IP or does/can it use another protocol?
>

In the "normal" scheme of things it is all carried over IP.
Yes, a personal firewall will block all unsolicited inbound
traffic it is not configured to allow.

--
Roger Abell
MVP (Windows Platform)


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