Turn reporting of local changes on or off
Note: This option is not available in Windows 8.
If your firewall configuration differs from policy, you can turn reporting of local changes off.
Turning reporting of local changes off stops the firewall sending "differs from policy" alerts to the management console about changes made to the global rules, applications, processes, or checksums. You may want to do this, for example, when you are working in interactive mode, since these are settings that can be changed by using the learning dialogs.
If the firewall configuration on this computer is intended to conform to policy, you should turn reporting of local changes on.
To turn reporting of local changes off:
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On the
Home page, under
Firewall, click
Configure firewall.
For information about the Home page, see About the Home page.
- Under Configurations, click Configure next to the location that you want to configure.
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On the
General tab, under
Reporting, clear the
Display an alert in the management console if local
changes are made to the global rules, applications, processes or
checksums check box to turn reporting of local changes off.
To turn reporting of local changes on, select the check box.