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QUESTION POSED ON: 23 October 2004
Enabling or disabling the firewall using GP in an AD doesn't take any effect on our client machines in the domain. We are using a Windows 2000 server and these settings are sent to our XP clients. The administrator files are upgraded.

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EXPERT RESPONSE
Yes, this is a known problem. Check this out: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;839551

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