On a Windows SBS 2003 Premium domain, xp pro sp3 clients,
Does anyone know whether a recent security update (either to the server or
the clients) has resulted in
'For your security, some settings are controlled by group policy' being
applied.

I am fairly sure when the clients were connected to the domain some months
ago the default was to have firewall off - it now appears to be on by
default (with no way of turning it off without modifying the registry).

Many thanks

ac@newsgroup wrote:

> On a Windows SBS 2003 Premium domain, xp pro sp3 clients,
> Does anyone know whether a recent security update (either to the server or
> the clients) has resulted in
> 'For your security, some settings are controlled by group policy' being
> applied.
>
> I am fairly sure when the clients were connected to the domain some months
> ago the default was to have firewall off - it now appears to be on by
> default (with no way of turning it off without modifying the registry).
>
> Many thanks
>
>

No security update did this.

This is the default group policy setting.

Please leave it enabled. It's up in group policy on the server and no
you don't need to go into the registry to adjust it.

"Susan Bradley" <sbradcpa@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:uKLgGHuYKHA.3456@newsgroup

>
> ac@newsgroup wrote:

>> On a Windows SBS 2003 Premium domain, xp pro sp3 clients,
>> Does anyone know whether a recent security update (either to the server
>> or the clients) has resulted in
>> 'For your security, some settings are controlled by group policy' being
>> applied.
>>
>> I am fairly sure when the clients were connected to the domain some
>> months ago the default was to have firewall off - it now appears to be on
>> by default (with no way of turning it off without modifying the
>> registry).
>>
>> Many thanks

> No security update did this.
>
> This is the default group policy setting.
>
> Please leave it enabled. It's up in group policy on the server and no you
> don't need to go into the registry to adjust it.

Thats fine then, just spooked by some older internet postings relating the
condition to virus/malware - it doesn't seem to be causing any problems per
se, but I am troubleshooting a DHCP issue that causes loss of connectivity
on clients around the network and wanted to rule it out.

Thanks for your help.