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Mastering Windows' New Firewall, Part 1

Overview 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. This paper focuses on the new management interface for Windows Firewall and how network-aware firewall profiles work.

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O'Reilly Media
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Date Published
Sep 13, 2007
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Firewalls, Network Security

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