Details

Email system availability depends in part on best practice strategies for setting tuning configurations. Unauthorized or accidental restoration of public folder data risks data loss or corruption.

This setting controls whether the public folder store can be overwritten by a restore from backup, which will cause loss of all information added after the backup was created. It should only be enabled during maintenance windows or following an outage (immediately before a restore is to be made), and cleared again immediately afterward.

During production windows, this feature must be disabled.

Solution

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Set-PublicFolderDatabase -Identity <'IdentityName'> -AllowFileRestore $false

Note: The value must be in quotes.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Exchange_2013_Y21M01_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|SC-28
• CAT|III
• CCI|CCI-001199
• Rule-ID|SV-207292r615936_rule
• STIG-ID|EX13-MB-000130
• STIG-Legacy|SV-84613
• STIG-Legacy|V-69991
• Vuln-ID|V-207292

Source

• Tenable.com/audits