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Audit Filtering Platform Connection

As the name would indicate, this category logs events associated with network connections permitted or blocked by Windows Firewall and the lower level Windows Filtering Platform. What's it doing in the higher level Object Access category? Who knows. To configure this on Server 2008 and Vista you must use auditpol. Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 and later can use Group Policy.

Coverage on events generated by this category are currently in the Security Log Encyclopedia:

Event IDTitle
5031 The Windows Firewall Service blocked an application from accepting incoming connections on the network.
5154 The Windows Filtering Platform has permitted an application or service to listen on a port for incoming connections.
5155 The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked an application or service from listening on a port for incoming connections.
5156 The Windows Filtering Platform has allowed a connection
5157 The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked a connection
5158 The Windows Filtering Platform has permitted a bind to a local port.
5159 The Windows Filtering Platform has blocked a bind to a local port.

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