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Mastering Windows Server 2016

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Server 2016 A comprehensive and practical guide to Windows Server 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888908
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Windows Server 2016 2. Installing and Managing Windows Server 2016 FREE CHAPTER 3. Core Infrastructure Services 4. Certificates in Windows Server 2016 5. Networking with Windows Server 2016 6. Enabling Your Mobile Workforce 7. Hardening and Security 8. Tiny Servers 9. Redundancy in Windows Server 2016 10. Learning PowerShell 5.0 11. Application Containers and Docker 12. Virtualizing Your Datacenter with Hyper-V Index

Windows Firewall – no laughing matter


Let's play a word association game. I will say something, and you say the first word that comes to mind.

"Network Security"

Did you say "Firewall"? I think I would have. When we think of securing our devices at the network level, we think of perimeters. Those perimeters are defined and protected by firewalls, mostly at a hardware level with a specialized networking device made to handle that particular task in our networks. Today we are here to talk about another layer of firewalling that you can and should be utilizing in your environments. Yes, we are talking about the Windows Firewall. Stop laughing, it's rude!

It is easy to poke fun at the Windows Firewall based on its history. In the days of Windows XP and Server 2003 it was pretty useless, and caused way more headaches than it solved. In fact, these feelings were so common that I still today find many companies who completely disable the Windows Firewall on all of their domain-joined systems as a...

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