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