Disable firewall on VM

[fborges555]

Hi gurus

Can I use Powercli to disable firewall on a VM?

Thanks

[LucD]

You mean a FW inside the Guest OS on the VM?

[fborges555]

Yes 

[LucD]

Well, that of course depends on the sort of Guest OS.
Most of these have a command to do that.
And, when the VMware Tools are installed, you can execute that command via Invoke-VMScript.

[fborges555]

L.

they are all Windows 2019 and VM tools 11 install

Thanks again for the help

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Just send the following through Invoke-VMScript

Set-NetFirewallProfile -Profile Domain, Public, Private -Enabled False

But be aware that you need administrator credentials to do that.
And UAC might not allow you to run elevated commands