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By David McAmis and Don Jones
04 Oct 2004 | SearchExchange.com |
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The following is tip #7 from "8 Exchange 2003 security tips in 8 minutes" excerpted from
a chapter in David McAmis and Don Jones' book, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Delta
Guide, published by Sams Publishing.
Return to the main page for
more tips on this topic.
The "Server Security Enhancements" section of this chapter looked briefly at how the
Kerberos protocol was being used to make secure connections between servers. You can also
use the Kerberos protocol to make a secure connection between Outlook 2003 and Exchange
2003. In addition to providing a secure connection, Kerberos enables cross-forest
authentication in forests that are running their domain controllers using Windows Server
2003, allowing the separation of Exchange users and Exchange servers.
This separation has a significant impact on the configuration of your Exchange topology and
could be used to provide a "hosted" e-mail solution to other organizations or to simplify or
effectively outsource Exchange administration.
Get more "8 Exchange 2003 security tips in 8 minutes." Return to the main
page.
About the authors:
David McAmis is an enterprise architect and partner in a consulting firm in Sydney,
Australia. David has written a number of books and more than 100 articles that have appeared
in magazines and journals.
Don Jones, MCSE, CTT+, is an independent consultant and founding partner of BrainCore.Net.
Don is the author of more than a dozen books and the creator and series editor of Sams
Publishing's Delta Guide series. He is also a contributing editor and columnist for
Microsoft® Certified Professional Magazine, the Microsoft technology columnist for
CertCities.com, and a speaker at technology conferences.
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