Hello,
I am having issues getting Remote Desktop connections through the firewall on both my Windows 2008R2 servers as well as my Windows 7 clients. I have enabled Remote Desktop connections via a GPO. I have also gone into the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security GPO setting and created an Inbound Rule for Remote Desktop.
I am not allowed to remotely login to either the clients or the servers after creating the GPO. If I login on the machine, I can go into the firewall settings and see that the GPO has been applied and there is a check mark next to Remote Desktop on the Inbound filters list.
However if I perform the same steps on the local firewall and allow the Remote Desktop Inbound exception, then it works fine.
So my question is, why would the firewall exception being applied via a GPO not be good enough to enable Remote Desktop? Why do I still need to enable it on the local machine as well?
Thanks,
-John