For the WMI portion, I certainly prefer the Like "%Windows XP%" method since professional is spelled differently in some languages. working examples. SELECT * from Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Caption LIKE "Microsoft Windows XP%" SELECT * from Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Caption LIKE "%Windows Vista%" Doug Delaney EDS - Integration Engineering-GM GM Desktop Engineering 1075 W. Entrance Dr., MS 2B, Cube 2130 Auburn Hills, MI 48326 Lab: 248-365-9187 Tel: 248-754-7917 Pg: 248-870-0306 pager Mail: Doug.Delaney@xxxxxxx <mailto:Doug.Delaney@xxxxxxx> Note: The information in this email is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited. ________________________________ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jason Williams Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:10 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Group Policy and Vista Firewall Hi Omar, The problems we are having is that we can not start the Vista Firewall. Just fails. yet, if we take a computer out of the domain, firewall starts up. My conclusion is that the GPO was causing the issue. Basically, i've been working to try and clear up the GPO's here and make them more efficient. Right now, they hvae the GPO's to allow RDP access to XP machines as well as a few other exceptions to access the machines. It does not really sit well with me that it is a "broad" brush stroke at the domain level with this policy. I'll recreating the policy on a Vista machine, see if that does anything. for the WMI portion, I can actually specifiy "Microsoft Windows XP Professional?" After I posted my thread, I thought, "It would be better if I specifically indicated a OS. More specific. Thanks. Jason On 9/11/07, Omar Droubi <omar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Well 1st- what issues are you having with the GPO and Vista? 2nd- What exactly are you doing in your FW policy? Just curious since it applying to all workstations and servers on your network 3rd- If placing the FW GPO is correct at the domain level, log on to the Vista machine, open GPMC and create the a new policy with the same settings and replace the existing one. Policies created on Vista workstations will be backward compatible as far as functionality goes- but you should not administer those policies using GP editor or GPMC from any other operating system except vista and Windows Server 2008. Creating the GPO on Vista may help resolve any compatibility issues you are having on the vista workstations- and it should continue to work on the XP machines as you have in place with the current policy. As far as WMI filter goes- I have had better luck with inclusions rather than exclusions. I would do something like: "Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Caption = "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" Hope that helps, Omar ________________________________ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jason Williams Sent: Tue 9/11/2007 1:23 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Group Policy and Vista Firewall I seem to be having some issues with Vista and Group Policy. Looking at the policy in place, we have a Windows XP Firewall policy applied at the root of the domain. Not sure if that is the best way to apply, so im looking for alternatives. I thought about making a WMI filter to make this Group Policy only be applied to XP machines. Would that be a viable option? Here is what I have for my filter (Still learning on how to make WMI filters and script as well) root\CIMv2 SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE BuildNumber !="6000" I was thinking to, can I make this better? I appreciate the help. Jason