SBS 2011 reports firewall disabled as "critical", how to ignore?

Sick of this "error".  I turned the Windows Firewall off. Don't need it. How do i get the console to ignore this state and stop reporting it as a problem.
Please don't spew the partly line at me, all the pros know windows firewall is a major PITA to be avoided at all costs. The network has a WAN hardware firewall, and AV inside the LAN. 

 Feel free to think you know better about firewalls, but knowing
EXACTLY what application is going out of WHAT port ensures that when
there's unwanted processes that I have a better handle on my internal
security.  An external firewall is NOT the same thing as an internal
firewall.  And the sooner all of you guys think you know better
especially as we're doing more cloud stuff the better off we'll all be.
Now to your ask.  I'm forgetting off the top of my head if it's
responding to the service not running (in which case go into the network
tab, and configure the alerts for running services and untick the
windows firewall service monitoring that it's doing) or if it's reacting
to an eventid  -- if it's that you can used
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2012/01/16/managing-event-alerts-in-your-reports-an-sbs-monitoring-feature-enhancement.aspx
to edit your reports to get it to ignore the alert.
If either one doesn't help holler back, but understand that posting in a
forum and insulting everyone in the process isn't exactly the greatest
way to expect help around here.
You are new to this forum and I'd like to urge you to be a bit kinder to
those here that just come to help people.  Mohammed was not a troll.
P.S. I drink Mountain dew not Koolaid.

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    Hi John,
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