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 ...

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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 ...

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," ...

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 ...

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I've just setup IPsec on my router (pfSense) and my IPsec clients have a different subnet (192.168.10.0/24) than my LAN subnet (192.168.0.0/24). By default, the Windows Firewall (in Windows 7 at least ...

Microsoft this week announced advancements in two Azure services that are used to add security for applications and content that touch the Internet. One of those services is Azure Front Door, which ...