November 2007 - Posts

Infuriating Windows Server 2003 SP2 behaviour
01 November 07 11:44 PM | alexcampbell | 4 comment(s)

<rant> 

I just added two new servers to our hosting AD domain via Remote Desktop.  After rebooting, I could no longer Remote Desktop to or even ping the machines.

So I get in a taxi, go in to the datacenter, log in to the machines locally, and discover that Windows has decided to enable its firewall (and block all remote connections).

This new 'feature' just wasted nearly 2 hours of my day.  And for what?  I am all for 'secure by default' but this is taking it way too far.

</rant>

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