Enable and Enforce Firewall settings using Group Policy (GPO) - Windows Server 2022 / 2019 / 2016

Demonstration on enabling and enforcing Windows Defender Firewall settings using Group Policy Object (GPO) with Microsoft domain and Organizational Units (OU) in Active Directory(AD) in Windows Server 2022.

GPO location for Windows Defender Firewall:
Computer Configuration
- Policies
-- Admin Templates
--- Network
---- Network Connections
----- Windows Defender Firewall
------ Domain Profile ✔
------ Standard Profile ✔
Settings to update: Protect all network connections

Don't forget our favorite command: gpupdate /force

This demonstration uses Windows Server 2022 with Windows 11 Professional end client. But the principles are same for Windows Server 2012 through 2022 (Windows Server 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / 2012). There are no GUI differences among most of the pervious versions of Windows Servers. The enforced GPO settings will work on Windows 10 and previous versions of client Operating Systems connected to the domain.

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Track: WhileART Sessions Episode 02 | Waramathi (වරමාතී) Fusion

Co-producer:
Manuja Senanayake

#windowsserver2022 #GPO #firewall #windowsdefender #windowsserver

[FernandoSLima]

Excelent video... subscribed... thanks for sharing.

[dyablo]

its hard to get past how you spelled client "clinet"

[Gabe______]

Hi Sanuja, i've followed one of yours tutorial about bitlocker but my policie cannot replicate on gpedit.msc, it stated as not configured... do you know how can i proceed with this?