App To Remote Administer Windows Firewall

[Graham Carter]

I know you can use powershell to instigate remote windows firewall changes, however was wondering if anyone know of a GUI tool to perform this task.

As most of our users are working remotely nowadays, there is the odd occasion where we need to change remote machines local firewall entries.

 

Again I know this can be done in POWERSHELL however its too fiddly and was wondering whether there was a GUI tool?

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

How are these systems managed? You can push down group policy to do this over ad or azure ad.

 

Id learn power shell, it seems to be where microsoft is moving things.

[Graham Carter]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

How are these systems managed? You can push down group policy to do this over ad or azure ad.

 

Id learn power shell, it seems to be where microsoft is moving things.

Everyone authenticates to domain via pc's and laptops already joined to the domain, and connect via MERAKI vpn
Normally we can do most stuff from the msc snap ins, however some users have these blocked via software firewall

 

and yeah GPO updates are a possibility but prefer more granular tweaks. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, Graham Carter said:

Everyone authenticates to domain via pc's and laptops already joined to the domain, and connect via MERAKI vpn
Normally we can do most stuff from the msc snap ins, however some users have these blocked via software firewall

 

and yeah GPO updates are a possibility but prefer more granular tweaks. 

What do you want thats more granular? GPOs let you basically tell the firewall what ports and what programs can use those ports.