Question : Cisco VPN Client preventing Remote Desktop, SMS, Group Policy, ICMP, and Antivirus administration?

I have been experiencing problems with what I've narrowed down to the Cisco VPN Client on my network.  I personally don't use the VPN client, but I administer the machines utilizing it.  When a Cisco VPN client is installed on a machine I suddenly lose that machine in SMS, my Parent AV server, and it stops receiving my group policy changes.  In addition, I cannot ping or remote desktop to the machine.  I've found an INI file in the root of the cisco vpn program directory that has a "Stateful firewall=1" option and changing that to 0 does not seem to make a difference.  Only when I uninstall the cisco vpn client do these problems stop happening and of course keeping it uninstalled is not an option.

Any hints or tips would be most appreciated.

Answer : Cisco VPN Client preventing Remote Desktop, SMS, Group Policy, ICMP, and Antivirus administration?

On the cisco vpn client go to options > unselect "stateful firewall always on"