TABLE OF CONTENTS No matter what type of environment you re dealing with, we strongly advise you to take security seriously. A successful attack on the servers in your organization s Exchange Messaging environment can be quite severe, greatly damaging the entire organization and costing huge amounts of money in lost productivity.
In this chapter, we ll look at the following issues:
Windows 2000/2003 security
Exchange 2003 Windows dependencies
Applying best security practices
Installing Exchange 2003 best practices
This chapter will provide you with useful information needed in order to sucessfully install, maintain, and secure your Exchange Messaging enviroment. We start by giving you a few tips and relevant links you will find useful when installing and maintaining your Exchange messaging servers. You will also be presented with information on how the various Exchange services depend on Windows. We end the chapter by providing you with a couple of best practices.
While this chapter will only touch upon some issues, you can refer to the Appendix at the back of this book for additional information on Windows and server security.
To end up with a secure Exchange 2003 messaging environment, you must keep in mind that the operating system (OS) needs as much attention as Exchange itself. But if this book were to cover all Windows-related security issues in addition to Exchange security, we would still be writing! So instead we provide a few tips as well as some helpful Windows security-related Microsoft links.
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