Question: Of late, one of my application vendor has been making numerous mistakes or errors in the deployment scripts, ie the deployment scripts fail and the system team (server and database) need to deploy additional times to fix their mistakes. The application and system team are two different vendors. We are in the process of renewing our maintenance contract with the application vendor. I would like to put a clause in the maintenance contract to remind the application team to do their due diligence in ensuring that the deployment script is running properly and to minimise any repeated error. Any sample which i can look at?

Answer: 
2008 has firewall active by default, with inbound filtering. As a quick test, disable the firewall on the Core:

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> netsh advfirewall set currentprofile state off
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It should now be working. Then you can activate again the firewall and allow the blocked traffic (RPC i guess).

2 ways:

* Locally on the core, through command line
* With the firewall MMC from the other server

First way:

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> netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Rules to enable" new enable=yes
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Second way:
On the core, allow remote management:

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> netsh advfirewall set currentprofile settings remotemanagement enable
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Then, on the non core server, you must launch mmc, add the **Windows Firewall with Advanced Security** console, so you are prompt to specify a remote computer
You should check the Remote Server Management Service also.
I've bunch of 2008 Servers that I manage throught my office laptop with this MMC Service, but to use it you've to activate it on the server first.