Window7 SP1 and group policy exception for RDP on clients firewalls

I’ve been struggling with annoying problem on one of my virtual test machines running Windows 7 SP1. One of them suddenly decided that I can’t log on to it using Remote Desktop Services (RDP).

I know that I created group policy (GPO) exception to allow Remote Desktop connections for all my PC’s from LAN and VPN. For configuring I used this link.

I also know that it worked just fine not long ago. So I checked it and it seemed OK.

Group policy for Remote Desktop exceptions:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Group policy exceptions:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I did some Googling and found similar problem which lead me to solution. It seems that the problem was in Windows 7 SP1.
 
And finally the recipe for solution:
Solution was that I just needed to open for editing GPO that controlled RDP on computer running Windows 7 SP1 or on Windows 2008 R2 server with SP1. After I did that and run “gpupdate /force” on problematic PC I could finally connect to it using RDP.

This is it for today. Have fun!