Enable Ping Replies on Windows Server 2008

• To enabled Ping reply from Windows Server 2008, goto Window Firewall with Advance Settings from Administrator Tools menu.
• Look inside Inbound Rules, scroll down to File and Printer Sharing, right click and enable this rule.

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• For Windows Server Core which does not have any UI, you can enable this rule from the command prompt.

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8

• To disable it type

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable 

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