Re: IIS6 on W2k3 DCs
From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] (sbradcpa_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 01/14/05
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:11:34 -0800 To: Joe Blatz <sd_wireless@yahoo.com>
I may be laughed from here to kingdom come on this listserve...but I
gotta ask....
Common best practices for whom? Define a role please? What is "common
best practices" may not be good enough for one person, but may be just
fine for another. What are they doing with this box? Exposing it to
the web as a web server...yeah I'd still argue that's insanity.
But Small Business Server 2003 runs with IIS on our domain controller.
Where's MY security risks these days? Not my server..nope......it's my
desktops where my security risks lie.
Port 80 is closed on my server but IIS is still on there. On the
outside is Firewall, intrusion detection and what not. Running with XP
sp2 firewalls on the inside but still need to get to more use of user
mode on the desktop.
Am "I" freaking out over IIS on my domain controller? Nope. Not at
this moment. Am I freaking out over admin rights on desktops?
You betcha I am... big time.
www.threatcode.com
Susan...the wacko SBSer.
Joe Blatz wrote:
>The security guides published by many sources (NSA,
>MS, etc) stated that IIS4 and IIS5 do not belong on
>DCs. Common best practices would, in general, guide
>that an HTTP (IIS or otherwise) daemon doesn't belong
>on DC.
>
>By referring to numerous security guides written
>specifically for NT4 and W2k we were able to convince
>a customer of this. Now that IIS6 has come out, and
>the customer feels that IIS6 is much safer than IIS4
>and IIS5, they want to put it back on their DCs.
>
>I am looking for sources that document that this is a
>bad idea. When it comes to the NSA they don't have a
>guide for W2k3 but have instead pointed to Microsoft's
>"Windows Server 2003 Security Guide" and the use of
>the "High Security" settings and templates. The MS
>guide does (rather subtly) show that IIS should not be
>on a DC. They only show the HTTP service enabled on an
>IIS server, but I think this may not be direct enough
>for our client.
>
>Any help finding an explicit statement that IIS6 does
>not be belong on a DC would be greatly appreciated.
>
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