Forum Discussion
Defender Firewall - rules configured in Intune not applying on Win10
I'm trying to configure some Firewall rules in a Microsoft Defender Firewall configuration profile in Intune. The basic rules (ie enabling Microsoft Defender Firewall and default action like blockin...
Thanks Oliver Kieselbach you have helped me out (again) - would also add to help others that when filtering the results of the PowerShell query use $_.DisplayName not $_.Name as MDM gives the rule a generic string of characters as the name which isn't easy to spot.
so Get-NetFirewallRule -PolicyStore ActiveStore | where-object { $_.DisplayName -eq "YourRuleName" }
Will prove that the rule was created successfully
I created a blog about the firewall rule some time ago... and the get-netfirewallrule is indeed a good way do determine if the firewall rules were applied
https://call4cloud.nl/2020/07/the-windows-firewall-rises/#results
https://call4cloud.nl/2020/07/the-windows-firewall-rises/#results
- I like the closing gif 😉