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SolutionBase: Take a look at the Windows Vista Firewall June 13, 2007 SolutionBase: Take a look at the Windows Vista Firewall by Scott Lowe Windows Vista spent a very long time in development and puts a new face on just about every feature found in the OS. The Windows firewall in Vista has been a part of this transformation, and includes a number of new features not found in previous versions of the technology. In this article, Ill spend some time discussing the enhancements found in Windows Vistas Firewall -hereafter called Windows Firewall -and will explain how to manage this feature. Vista firewall enhancements In Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft shipped a vastly improved -at the time -client-based firewall solution. The Windows XP firewall in SP2 was enabled by default, which meant that computers were instantly granted better protection from attack. However, the firewall in XP SP2 was missing some key features that have been included in Windows Firewall. Although there are more, there are two major improvements to the firewall that make it a very viable solution for Vista users: The Windows Firewall now includes application-aware outbound filtering, which provides directional control over all traffic to and from your computer and your users computers. Microsoft has included an advanced management interface in order to allow administrators to very granularly apply rules to workstations. Further, the Windows Firewall can be managed from Group Policy, meaning that corporate IT can more easily enforce organizational computing policies that may ban specific activities, such as instant messaging or peer-to-peer file sharing. Managing Windows Firewall In Vista, Microsoft has provided two distinct interfaces to configure the Windows Firewall: Traditional or basic control panel method. This is a relatively simplistic firewall configuration tool for the Windows Firewall. It looks a lot like the Windows XP firewall management tool. Windows Firewall with Advanced ...

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