Enabling ping (ICMP) on Windows Server

Thanks for this Mateus as having this with FW still on is a good thing.  Another tip to add to my list. 😎

Thanks...way easier than mucking around in the GUI!

@wolff.mateus just to add some info, with PSping you can use TCP instead ICMP, but oc, it’s blocked by default too.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psping

An alternative way to check if a ip is online without disabling firewall could done by using nmap (super nice, I’ll do a topic about you wanna) or, more easy, using Advanced IP Scanner and set scan to that IP.

Very Nice Marco!

That is extremely useful and advanced IP scanner I use all the time for things especially in my lab for checking free IPs. 😜

For me, it’s when I bring up VM’s in the lab / SureBackup.  I bring up my domain controllers first, but because I am moving to an isolated network with a different subnet windows is unhappy and uses different firewall rules.

I usually disable the ping test, log into the machine, accept the changes and my lab is fine.  It seems the only way I can bring the lab up so people can RDP in and test the VM’s.

For me its the issue of the subnet changing and masquerade as I allow ICMP in.

I’m going to think if I can find a way to script this into my lab as this has been annoying me for some time.

Thanks