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Protecting Exchange 2003 Using the Windows Firewall

Overview Windows XP SP2 introduced a security overhaul for the Microsoft client operating system. It actually became a new operating system with almost all of the code changed. A lot of the coding and testing effort went into creating the Windows Firewall, Microsoft's version of a personal firewall. A personal firewall is a piece of software that filters incoming and/or outgoing TCP/IP activity for a single workstation by using a special network driver. This paper explains how to use the Windows 2003 SP1-introduced port and application filtering options to protect the Exchange server.

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Publisher	TechGenix	File Format	HTML
Date Published	April 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Firewalls

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