Exchange 2003 Security

Exchange 2003 Security Consulting Services

For several years, intruders have directed many attacks at Microsoft software, including Microsoft IIS, Internet Explorer (IE), and the Outlook and Outlook Express mail clients. Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server adopted SMTP as its basic messaging transport and uses IIS's IP stacks. As a result, attacks on IIS can potentially affect Exchange installations, including Exchange Server 2003. In 2001, Microsoft started a big security push known as the Trustworthy Computing initiative. Windows Server 2003 is the company's first enterprise OS to benefit from this initiative.

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Exchange 2003 and the Trustworthy Computing Initiative

As a result of the Trustworthy Computing initiative, Microsoft has upgraded many components that will improve the overall security of Exchange 2003 as well, including changes that the company made to Windows 2003 and Internet Information Services(IIS) 6.0. Bear in mind that Exchange 2003 can run on Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) and use IIS 5.0, but if you want to take advantage of many of the new security features, you must run Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003 and use IIS 6.0.  

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Hardening Exchange 2003 Servers

The Exchange 2003 Domain Controller Baseline Policy modifies the domain controllers in your forest so they can support Exchange operations. This policy co-exists with the Domain Controller Baseline Policy that is recommended. The sequence of the policies on the Group Policy tab determines the order in which policies are applied; therefore, it is important that you place the Exchange Domain Controller Baseline Policy above the Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller Baseline Policy.

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