Select Yes to turn off the Windows Firewall and register the Endpoint Security Agent as the firewall provider in the Windows Security Center. This ensures that the Firewall policy’s settings and the Windows Firewall settings do not conflict and generate unexpected results.
Select Inherit to inherit this setting value from other Firewall policies assigned higher in the policy hierarchy. For example, if you assign this policy to a user, the setting value is inherited from any Firewall policies assigned to the user’s groups, folders, or zone.
Please be aware of the following when using this option:
On Windows devices that are members of a domain, the GPO setting Turn On Security Center (Domain PC's Only) must be enabled. If the setting is not enabled and you apply a Firewall policy that disables the Windows Firewall, the Endpoint Security Agent is unable to turn off the Windows Firewall; the result is that both the Windows and Endpoint Security firewalls are active.
This setting disables only the Windows Firewall. If the device has other (third-party) firewalls active, those firewalls are not disabled and could conflict with the Endpoint Security firewall. We recommend that you disable any other firewalls.