Re: SBS2008 Why is port 80 opened by default?

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:03:23 +1100, "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]"
<not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I still consider it (80 being opened) undesirable. OK, IIS is looking after
the redirect to SSL but still, I'd simply prefer the default action as
'closed', maybe a separate checkbox 'My users cannot remember an s'.

Like others however I don't use UPnP.

Yes, I have the same configuration here. Whilst I am very impressed
with the IIS configuration on the SBS 2008 box, I left port 80 closed
on the firewall because we use favourite links on machines to get
users to the right place.

Interestingly enough on the old SBS 2003 we had port 80 opened and
used it as a place to get files etc, as well as the HTTPS redirect,
and I am getting hundreds of requests to port 80 every day on the
firewall.

Andrew.
.

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