Remote Administration is your standard RPC ports to do things like remote WMI, computer management console, RSOP, etc. You almost always want that exception in your domain profile settings. Jamie Nelson | Infrastructure Consultant | BI&T Operations | Devon Energy | Work: 405.552.8054 | http://www.dvn.com -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of tools@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:49 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Configure Adv Firewall Sad to say Steve, I could find no good documentation on what exactly, each rule does. However, if you pick a given pre-defined rule, and select Next, the UI shows you exactly which ports and protocols are represented by that rule. Darren -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Evans Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:32 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Configure Adv Firewall I'm trying to configure the "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security" for my Win2k8 servers via GPO. When you create a new rule one of the options is to choose a set of Predefined rules. Some of those predefined rule sets are obvious (File & Print Sharing for example), but others are not as clear (what's the difference between Remote Administration, and Remove Event Log Management for example). I've been searching google all morning trying to find a definition of the different predefined rules to no avail. Can anyone help me? Steve Evans *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s), are confidential, and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, retransmission, conversion to hard copy, copying, circulation or other use of all or any portion of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message and any attachments from your system. *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************