Windows Domain. In Active Directory Users and computers, when you right-click on computer, you have the "manage" option which takes you into the computer management feature of the computer. However, when I enable the local windows firewall on a computer, I don't know what exception or type of excpetion to note so this feature continues to work from Active Directory Users and computers?

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Yes, but not when launching from the local computer. Computer Managment will launch on the local machine with the firewall enabled. But in Active Directory Users and computers, you can right-click on the computer and choose manage which takes you into computer management for the local computer, that is what the local windows firewall is preventing. When I turn the local windows firewall off, the issue is resolved, therefore I need an exception but don't know what.

http://www.msexchange.org/img/upl/i... Refer to this pic's "manage" option for clarification. When I right-click on a client computer in Active Directory Users and computers and choose manage, it fails to connect to client computers that have the local windows firewall enabled. When I turn off the local windows firewall on the client computer, this issue is resolved. I assume others have worked around this with an exception, so far these have not worked: compmgmt.msc mmc.exe port number of compmgmt.msc

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/... didn't find any port numbers associated with mmc. suspect you have to enable mmc program access in the local firewall. Imagine the power of knowing how to internet search http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html