Re: Firewall disabling via group policy

From: Wesley Vogel (123WVogel955_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:29:30 -0600

Known issues with the client administrative tools in Windows XP SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;870703 

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Hope this helps.  Let us know.
Wes
In news:D7197E4A-6B5D-4CE9-9DB5-D271C4B2A426@microsoft.com,
bkaler <bkaler@discussions.microsoft.com>  hunted and pecked:
> I've followed the instructions in the WF_XPSP2.doc document on how to
> keep the SP2 firewall disabled on our network, however our group
> policy currently has a completely empty administrative template
> branch under Computer Configuration.  I was able to fix this by
> adding the system.adm template from an XP SP2 machine under domain
> admin. 
> 
> The problem is, whenever I change settings I get:
> 
> The Group Policy snapin was unable to save your changes due to the
> following error:
> 
> The file can not be accessed by the system.
> 
> what sort of changes do I have to make, from everything I've read so
> far, this is the correct way to add an administrative template =\

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