Disabling the firewall in Windows Server 2008 Core Edition

 

For certain reason, system administrator always prefer to disable the windows firewall. You can do this with the following Netsh command:

[netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off]

Now the Windows Firewall is disabled for all network profiles.

C:\Users\Administrator>netsh advfirewall show

The following commands are available:

Commands in this context:
show allprofiles - Displays properties for all profiles.
show currentprofile - Displays properties for the active profile.
show domainprofile - Displays properties for the domain properties.
show global    - Displays the global properties.
show privateprofile - Displays properties for the private profile.
show publicprofile - Displays properties for the public profile.
show store     - Displays the policy store for the current interactive session.

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