Sometimes you need access remotely and provide help to your end-user, but all your attempts are blocked by remote firewall. Perhaps your Group Policy settings to disable firewall settings don&#8217;t work (or even you have opposite setting to enable firewall) or yet not updated on needed workstation. In this situation to avoid visit of user workstation you may do following: 1 way: download psexec on your own admin computer &#8220;run as administrator&#8221; cmd psxec \\remote-computername cmd now remotely on remote computer run netsh firewall set  <span><a href="https://www.itforce.mn/index.php/2017/04/06/how-remotely-disable-on-company-ad-workstation-firewall/" class="readmore">Continue reading &rarr;</a></span>{"id":560,"date":"2017-04-06T20:13:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/?p=560"},"modified":"2017-04-11T21:23:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:23:47","slug":"how-remotely-disable-on-company-ad-workstation-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/2017\/04\/06\/how-remotely-disable-on-company-ad-workstation-firewall\/","title":{"rendered":"How remotely disable on company AD workstation firewall."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you need access remotely and provide help to your end-user, but all your attempts are blocked by remote firewall. Perhaps your Group Policy settings to disable firewall settings don&#8217;t work (or even you have opposite setting to enable firewall) or yet not updated on needed workstation. In this situation to avoid visit of user workstation you may do following:<\/p>\n<p>1 way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>download <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/pstools.aspx\">psexec<\/a><\/li>\n<li>on your own admin computer<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;run as administrator&#8221; cmd<\/li>\n<li>\n<pre>psxec \\\\remote-computername cmd<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>now remotely on remote computer<\/li>\n<li>run\n<pre> netsh firewall set opmode disable<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2 way:<\/p>\n<p>Or if you have vPro\/AMT access thru out-of-band ip kvm.<\/p>\n<p>3 way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>download <a href=\"https:\/\/specopssoft.com\/product\/specops-gpupdate\/\">Specops Gpupdate <\/a>and immediately apply all Group Policy on target remote workstation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now you can try again RDP , dameware or other remote accesses.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/community.spiceworks.com\/how_to\/438-connect-to-remote-computer-enable-disable-firewall-through-command-line\">original web page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itforce.mn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}