XPSP2, SUS and the dreaded firewall

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Does anyone know how to "pre-disable" the windows
firewall when pushing the SP2 though SUS?

 

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| Does anyone know how to "pre-disable" the windows
| firewall when pushing the SP2 though SUS?

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Does anyone know how to "pre-disable" the windows
firewall when pushing the SP2 though SUS?

Hi

SUS (and it's SP2 deployment) in it self cannot help you with this.

If AD, do it with a Group Policy setting.

If no AD:

Adding the registry values mentioned below will disable the SP2 FW,
this can be done either before or after SP2 is installed.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\DomainProfile
\EnableFirewall=0 (DWORD data type)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall\StandardProfile
\EnableFirewall=0 (DWORD data type)

Those registry values are documented in WF_XPSP2.doc.

WF_XPSP2.doc "Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft
Windows XP with Service Pack 2" is downloadable from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4454e0e1-61fa-447a-bdcd-499f73a637d1