How do I make GP for machine exception of XP-SP2 firewall?

[Dave Satchell]

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I have a laptop and a work-station that are part of a SBS domain and they
both have XP-SP2 loaded.

I want to have the MS firewall running on all of the machines except these
two as they both have third-party firewalls loaded. I don't want to remove
the existing firewall and I don't want to install the MS firewall on these
two machines only.

Is there a way to set exceptions (for the MS firewall) with group policy's
but only for these two machines?

I'm not very familiar with GP's.

Thanx, Dave.

 

[Guest]

Here is what I would do. I would create a seperate container in Active
Directory and move the two machine in question into it. I would then create
a seperate group policy to be applied to those two machines that disable the
Microsoft firewall.