Posted: May 14th, 2016
In some situations, you will need to temporarily or permanently change remote access to your server from an IP address (for example, KEKhost/KEKhosting’s support team IP address) in your Windows firewall. These instructions apply Windows Server 2016, 2012, 2008 R2, 2008, and 2003.
Add a rule in Windows firewall
1) Connect to your server using Remote Desktop.
2) Click simultaneously on the Windows logo + R to open the “Run” dialog and execute the “cmd” command.
3) Execute the following command:
Note: Replace "RDesktop-KEK" by the name of your choice and 3389 by the new remote access port (Remote Desktop) if the serveur uses a non-default port.
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="RDesktop-KEK" action=allow remoteip=209.172.32.36 protocol=TCP dir=in localport=3389
Suppress an existing rule from Windows firewall
If you want to suppress the rule you just created in the example above, execute this command:
Note: Replace "RDesktop-KEK" by the name of your choice
netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name ="RDesktop-KEK"
Related information: https://www.kekhosting.com/dedicated-servers.html