I only know enough binary to ask where the bathroom is

A friend of mine just sent me the following command to open passive ports on a Windows Machine. This is the easiest way to open Passive on a Windows I’ve seen.   I’ve run across everything from one liners that loop through every passive port, to full 10 page guides on the topic.  This is hands down the easiest way to open passive ports on a windows firewall I’ve come across.

NOTE: This only works on Windows Server 2008:

Simply issue the following command:

netsh advfirewall set global StatefulFtp enable