Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed

Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Customize security templates to ensure that application and operating system functionality are not broken or negatively affected.

• Use security templates provided by Microsoft, the National Security Agency (NSA) or the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as baselines for customizing the organization's security templates.

• Keep servers and client computers up-to-date with the latest service pack and security updates.

• Consult Microsoft, NIST, and NSA security guidelines for securing the operating system.

• Use third-party antivirus software.

• Authenticate clients to the Exchange Server 2003 messaging infrastructure, using Kerberos whenever possible.

• Outlook 2003 users should ...