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Identifying Your Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Deployment Goals

Applies To: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

Correctly identifying your Windows Firewall with Advanced Security deployment goals is essential for the success of your Windows Firewall with Advanced Security design project. Form a project team that can clearly articulate deployment issues in a vision statement. When you write your vision statement, identify, clarify, and refine your deployment goals. Prioritize and, if possible, combine your deployment goals so that you can design and deploy Windows Firewall with Advanced Security by using an iterative approach. You can take advantage of the predefined Windows Firewall with Advanced Security deployment goals presented in this guide that are relevant to your scenarios.

The following table lists the three main tasks for articulating, refining, and subsequently documenting your Windows Firewall with Advanced Security deployment goals.

Deployment goal tasks Reference links

Evaluate predefined Windows Firewall with Advanced Security deployment goals that are provided in this section of the guide, and combine one or more goals to reach your organizational objectives.

Predefined deployment goals:

Map one goal or a combination of the predefined deployment goals to an existing Windows Firewall with Advanced Security design.

Based on the status of your current infrastructure, document your deployment goals for your Windows Firewall with Advanced Security design into a deployment plan.

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