Re: Should I use a Front -End server
- From: "Brian Desmond [MVP]" <desmondb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:18:44 -0500
Stephen,
You're not really better off putting a seperate frontend in your DMZ subnet
than you are just throwing an SSL cert on the backend. With one mailbox
server, I'd just do the latter.
Check out the Front-end/back-end security question thread a couple down for
more chatter about this.
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--Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP
desmondb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.briandesmond.com
"StephenTMA" <StephenTMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am having a debate with a consultant who wants to put a front end server
> out on our DMZ to segregate any contact the outside world has with our
> network. He says that putting it and have the back-end go and retreive
> would
> provide the best security. We will have SMTP, POP, and OWA enabled. Now
> while I know and ISA for this would be MS choice and possibly the best,
> financially we cannot do that. My question is how much more vulnarable
> would
> we be just to put that all on the back-end in our network, of course using
> SSL.
>
> Thanks for your time
.
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