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I had this problem with terminal servers and just ended up turning the firewall off. Not the best option I know but I'm sure that's what most people do.
I caught a similar behavior while beta testing Windows 7 and 2008. My experience was that manually added firewall exceptions were removed after updates were applied.
I now run R2 and have not encountered it, but recently had a client with XP that had this happen and I cannot tell what caused it. I believe it was updates or installation of Microsoft security essentials, but I was unable to reproduce the issue and it happened on several machines across different hardware. It was odd that the firewall kept a ton of HP exceptions, java, etc., but the ones I'd added manually (as AN administrator - not THE administrator) were all gone. I then did a gpupdate /force which applied the group policy firewall exceptions, but did not show the manual ones I'd added. I have added exceptions using netsh command in the past, but I don't think those were effected - I could be mistaken. I noticed an old GUI issue with DNS and DHCP, etc. on Microsoft 2003 and R2 which made me lean towards doing many things by command line and I'm trying to do more by powershell so in conclusion this could be a GUI specific issue? Just one suggestion.
Good luck with that. If it were me and I had to call support I'm pretty sure "re-install" would be their "best" answer - haha, but not funny! Stop laughing!
I now run R2 and have not encountered it, but recently had a client with XP that had this happen and I cannot tell what caused it. I believe it was updates or installation of Microsoft security essentials, but I was unable to reproduce the issue and it happened on several machines across different hardware. It was odd that the firewall kept a ton of HP exceptions, java, etc., but the ones I'd added manually (as AN administrator - not THE administrator) were all gone. I then did a gpupdate /force which applied the group policy firewall exceptions, but did not show the manual ones I'd added. I have added exceptions using netsh command in the past, but I don't think those were effected - I could be mistaken. I noticed an old GUI issue with DNS and DHCP, etc. on Microsoft 2003 and R2 which made me lean towards doing many things by command line and I'm trying to do more by powershell so in conclusion this could be a GUI specific issue? Just one suggestion.
Good luck with that. If it were me and I had to call support I'm pretty sure "re-install" would be their "best" answer - haha, but not funny! Stop laughing!
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There are TR members who specifically seek out problems in need of a solution. Although there is some overlap between the forums, you'll find more of those members in 'Q&A' than in 'Discussions' or 'Water Cooler'.
Be sure to use the voting buttons to provide your feedback. Voting a '+' does not necessarily mean that a given response contained the complete solution to your problem, but that it served to guide you toward it. This is intended to serve as an aid to those who may in the future have a problem similar to yours. If they have a ready source of reference available, perhaps won't need to repeat questions previously asked and answered. If a post did contain the solution to your problem, you can also close the question by marking the helpful post as "The Answer". .
I have notice the problem for years and put the problem down to MS security updates resetting the firewall to its default settings. Whenever possible I got in the habit of installing my own firewall and turning off Windows firewall.
Installing my own firewall is not always possible, however, and I just experienced and can recreate the problem you describe on one of my client's SBS 2008 servers. The problem came about when configuring the server for Quickbooks which needs a range of ports open. I can configure exceptions but they are "forgotten" by the firewall sometimes within minutes and sometimes within weeks.
If someone finds a solution, please let me know.
Installing my own firewall is not always possible, however, and I just experienced and can recreate the problem you describe on one of my client's SBS 2008 servers. The problem came about when configuring the server for Quickbooks which needs a range of ports open. I can configure exceptions but they are "forgotten" by the firewall sometimes within minutes and sometimes within weeks.
If someone finds a solution, please let me know.
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