1.4 Relationship to Other Protocols
This protocol depends on the Group Policy: Core Protocol (as specified in [MS-GPOL]) to provide a list of applicable GPOs.
Group Policy: Firewall and Advanced Security Data Structure configures settings that are used by the Firewall and Advanced Security Protocol specified in [MS-FASP]. These settings are defined in [MS-FASP] section 3.1.1.
For policy administration, the Group Policy: Firewall and Advanced Security Data Structure depends on the Group Policy: Registry Extension Encoding (specified in [MS-GPREG]) to store settings from in the GPO. For policy application, the Group Policy: Firewall and Advanced Security Data Structure depends on Group Policy: Registry Extension Encoding to retrieve settings from a GPO and to populate settings in the client registry. Group Policy: Registry Extension Encoding in turn depends on remote file access to read and write these settings from the GPO. Thus the Group Policy: Firewall and Advanced Security Data Structure has an indirect dependency on remote file access.

Figure 1: Group Policy: Firewall and Advanced Security Data Structure protocol relationship diagram