Import Firewall Extract into GPO Using Script

[shinga77]

Good Day,


we are running a lot of Windows 7 based machines which are not on a Domain. I have a script to import the GPO's into the other machine as well as an extract of the firewall rules. I know hou to import this script into windows firewall using "netsh advfirewall", what I want to know is how I can import this into the group policy firewall with a script instead of the windows firewall.



If it is in GPO it makes it more difficult for the user to change or alter the firewall rules.

 

[file3456]

I'm not familiar with using scripts to change GPO polices. Here's a whole bunch of Info. on it though. Group Policy Management Console Scripting Samples (Windows)

I don't know if a Windows firewall script would be compatible with group policy. If it's XML then the settings are most likely different in the script.

 

[shinga77]

It's a wfw file. You manually import it into group policy into firewall. But I can't find a way to do it with a script yet.

 

[Alejandro85]

As you've mentioned, the "netsh advfirewall import" can import a .wfw into the firewall policy and is 100% command line, hence scriptable.

 

[shinga77]

Correct, but that pulls the settings into the windows firewall based in control panel. We want it in the firewall section of group policies on gpedit