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Mastering Windows New Firewall, Part 1
Friday, November 3rd, 2006
The Windows Firewall has been enhanced in several ways in the upcoming Windows Vista. Some of 
these enhancements include more granular firewall rules, support for outbound traffic filtering, location-aware profiles, full IPv6 support, a new management console, new Group Policy support, integrated IPsec functionality, and more. In this article I’ll focus on the new management interface for Windows Firewall and how network-aware firewall profiles work. In future articles I’ll dig deeper into firewall rules (including outbound rules) and also show you how easy it is now to set up a secure IPsec connection between two Vista machines using Windows Firewall.
The New Management Console
While most users will still use the Windows Firewall utility in Control Panel to manage Windows Firewall on their Vista machines, advanced users may want to check out the new Windows Firewall with Advanced Security MMC console (see Figure 1). The simplest way to open this console is to press the WIN+R key combination to open the Run box, type WF.msc and press ENTER. You’ll have to respond to a User Account Countrol (UAC) prompt at that point, which means either clicking Continue (if you’re a local admin on the machine) or entering admin credentials (if you’re a standard user and can do so). WindowsDevCenter.com — Mastering Windows’ New Firewall, Part 1
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