Windows 2008 R2

For the life of me I couldn’t find an easy option to enable pinging, an ICMP Type 8 or Echo Request response, through my Windows 2008 R2 firewall. Every hit on Google told me to follow some steps through the GUI that ended up not being in R2 anymore or execute the following command which doesn’t seem to work in R2 either. netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable netsh would always respond back and tell me that firewall was depreciated, but not give me much more to go on. ...