Cannot start Base Filtering Engine on 2008 server joined to 2003 domain

[Guest Paul]

After initial boot of the server (factory install) the server was joined to

the 2003 AD domain. Prior to rebooting I noticed that I was unable to make

any configuration changes to the Firewall i.e. add exceptions.

Upon rebooting the firewall service was not running and when I tried to

restart it, received a message saying that one of it's dependant services

(BFE) was not started.

 

Starting the BFE resulted in an error 5: Access is denied. This occurred in

both local and domain admin accounts.

 

Moving the server to a seperate OU that denies all GPOs resulted in the same

issues as did a gpupdate/reboot.

 

Setting BFE to run as the domain admin resulted in error 1297.

 

No domain policies are set to enforce.

 

Can anyone assist as this seems to be a common issue but the fixes above did

not resolve it?

 

Thanks

 

Paul