Cannot Change Firewall Settings After Update

Teemo Tang 11,331 Reputation points
2020-07-14T08:38:46.187+00:00

We have a Server 2016 installation that has had several miscellaneous issues relating to Windows Firewall. First we have a recurring issue where a local network switches itself back to a Public network on reboot after being set to Private. I currently fixed this issue by creating a batch file that runs at startup and modifies the network to Private. Clearly this is not ideal so if anyone has any suggestions for this that would be great.

The real issue I am dealing with now though is with Windows Firewall. The only user on the Server is Administrator and the server is not on a domain or workgroup. For a long time users would change the firewall settings via the standard route, using the control panel. However after a recent update all of the settings for windows firewall are greyed out and a banner is shown on top of the page that says 'Some of these settings are managed by your administrator'. As I said the server is not on a domain and has no other administrators, that said it does connect to the internet through a university network using a VPN.

I can still edit firewall settings but only by opening the Group Policy Editor as an administrator or going through the server manager. I would be happy enough with this but the users would like to be able to change this and I cannot give them a straight answer as to why the settings are not available anymore. If anyone understands this issue and can at least provide some insight I would appreciate it.

OS: Windows Server 2016 v.1607 (build 14393.3443)

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  1. Jenny Feng 14,146 Reputation points
    2020-07-15T06:27:00.633+00:00

    I think we could try to change group policy about firewall setting to default or non configure even as you said it is local group policy, but it will also make affection on local administrator on this system.

    Also try to uninstall those 3 installed update packages if the issue occur after update system. We could uninstall through Control Panel\Programs & Features\View installed update to eliminate update affection.

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