Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed

Securing Outlook 2003

Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Office 2003 are very well integrated, and the teaming provides a formidable security front. Both new and improved features help provide a safe and reliable messaging environment and are described in the following sections.

Securely Accessing Exchange over the Internet

In previous versions of Exchange (and Outlook), Outlook users that needed to connect to Exchange over the Internet needed to establish a VPN connection prior to using Outlook. The only alternative solution was to open all sorts of RPC ports to the Internet or make a few Registry modifications to statically map RPC ports. Either way presents more of a security risk for the Exchange messaging environments than most are willing ...