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I recently tried to disable the windows firewall on a server, which resulted in the server going offline. I could not ping any of it's ips nor access any of its services.

Is that a setting that causes this when the windows firewall is disabled?

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Can you describe the steps you took to disable the firewall? – squillman Nov 16 '11 at 18:18
I when to windows services. And stopped the windows firewall service. – kurtnelle Nov 17 '11 at 19:06
Stopping the Windows Firewall service and telling Windows to stop Windows Firewall are two different actions. You should have disabled Windows Firewall from the Control Panel instead. – Ashley Steel Nov 26 '11 at 2:08
So then, stopping the service would block all connections to the server? That's never happened before. – kurtnelle Nov 27 '11 at 2:21
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