This important security function is better handled by a third-party program. Windows Firewall doesn't monitor outbound connections by default, and not at all in Windows XP. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday continued its parade of server releases, this time with a firewall and cache server first introduced last year. The Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) server provides ...

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that triggers invalid Windows Firewall errors after rebooting Windows 11 24H2 systems with the June 2025 preview update installed ...

Microsoft has announced that the new Premium tier for its managed cloud-based network security service Azure Firewall has entered public preview starting today. Azure Firewall requires zero ...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of a Basic edition of the Azure Firewall service, which is available at the preview stage. Azure Firewall is Microsoft's "stateful firewall as a service," ...

Microsoft Corp. has quietly released an update to Windows XP to fix a potentially serious configuration problem in the firewall that ships as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Users who ...

We're finding an increasing number of our machines seem to be totally ignoring the Group Policy that's assigned to a parent OU to disable the Windows XP Firewall.<BR><BR>The GPO is set to simply ...

I'm having trouble getting this working. Windows 7 and Server 2013 systesm. I'm trying to implement a rule to allow a specific TCP port through the firewall on systems but only if it comes from a ...

Windows Firewall Control is a nifty little application which extends the functionality of the Windows Firewall and provides quick access to the most frequent options of Windows Firewall. It runs in ...

In Part 1 of this tutorial series, we configured Windows to accept remote desktop connections, so we can log into and use a PC anywhere in the World with Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection client ...