Re: Sharepoint servers and Exchange servers

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>]

On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:29:29 EST, "Cheek, Leigh" said:
> Is having Sharepoint servers and Exchange servers in the same firewall
> zone a wise security choice?  Because the access level will be different
> for those two types of systems, I am of the opinion that you would be
> unnecessarily opening your Exchange servers to greater risk. What do you
> think? What other risks or advantages do you see to being in the same
> zone?

If you put them in two almost but not totally identical zones, you're just
increasing the chances that a screw-up will result, either in breaking
something in a difficult-to-diagnose way, or opening up an actual exposure.

Consider the "reducto ad absurdum" take on this - imagine you have 15 Exchange
servers, with different constituencies on them.  Some have your C-level execs,
some have engineers, some have paper-pushers, some have random employees.  Do
you want to park each one in its own little firewall zone?  Probably not,
because managing 15 zones will probably come back to haunt you...

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