# turn off windows firewall with ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/turn-off-windows-firewall-with-ansible/33622>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [August 16, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/turn-off-windows-firewall-with-ansible/33622 "2020-08-16T00:16:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tony\_Wong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@Tony\_Wong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony_Wong)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/turn-off-windows-firewall-with-ansible/33622/1 "2020-08-16T00:16:18Z")

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I got winrm over https configured via powershell on some remote hosts but looks like windows firewall is on and blocking port 5986. how do i turn off the firewall remotely?

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**Author:** ![Luca\_remix\_tj\_Lorenz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea666f/32.png) [@Luca\_remix\_tj\_Lorenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Luca_remix_tj_Lorenz)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 6:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/turn-off-windows-firewall-with-ansible/33622/2 "2020-08-17T06:52:30Z")

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Hello,

via group policy scripts. Ansible can't connect to a server with port  
5986 blocked.

Luca

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**Author:** ![Suhas\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@Suhas\_H](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Suhas_H)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/turn-off-windows-firewall-with-ansible/33622/3 "2020-08-30T10:33:21Z")

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Please use Microsoft PSTools to disable windows firewall remotely.