Re: IIS Lockdown Tool Corrupted Exchange 2000

From: Bernard (qbernard_at_hotmail.com.discuss)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:56:01 +0800

Urlscan is there to protect to your IIS.
It's recommended to install, if you running IIS 5.1 and below. 

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Bernard Cheah
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"Larry Hyman" <larry@hyman.sytes.netDELETETHIS> wrote in message
news:u3N9CWcJEHA.208@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> right !!!!   I do not like the IIS lock down tool, I rather run Microsoft
> Base Line Security Adviser to find the problems and the manually fix
> them.....
>
> PS.:  Did I say this Before?  BACK UP EVERYTHING FIRST OR BE PREPARED TO
> REFORMAT AND REINSTALL IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG !
>
> -- 
> And if you have time, check out my new website:
>
> http://hyman.sytes.net
>
> or
>
> http://www.larryhyman.tk
>
>
> "Ken Schaefer" <kenREMOVE@THISadOpenStatic.com> wrote in message
> news:uKBJgubJEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > What do you mean "corrupted your Exchange files"? IISLockDown makes
> > configuration changes to your IIS server only - it does not touch the
> > Exchange Information Store (EIS).
> >
> > The following KB article will probably help you configure IISLockDown so
> > that access to OWA and OMA still work:
> >
> > XCCC: IIS Lockdown and URLscan Configurations in an Exchange Environment
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=309508
> >
> > If you experience Exchange store corruption, you should call Microsoft
PSS
> > as IISLockDown is a supported security tool.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Ken
> >
> > "Michael Barker" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:0a7901c42583$9ae726c0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > : We did the IIS lockdown tool to enhance our security as
> > : recommended by Microsoft and it corrupted our entire
> > : Exchange server files, etc.  After a day to recover by
> > : reloading and reconfiguring Exchange and restoring all our
> > : email from backups we are reluctant to do this again on
> > : any of our other servers.  What did we miss here???
> >
> >
>
>

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