Windows Server 2003 included a basic host based firewall that protected the machine from external connections that you did not want to make to the server. While this was very helpful in protecting the Windows Server 2003 machine, it was relatively unsophisticated and did not allow for granular control of both inbound and outbound access to and from the Windows Server 2003 computer. In addition, the firewall included with Windows Server 2003 was not tightly integrated with installed services, so you had to manually configure the firewall whenever you added a new server or service to the machine.
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