EX13-MB-000130 - The Exchange Public Folder database must not be overwritten by a restore.

Information

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 <IdentityName> value must be in quotes.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Exchange_2013_Y24M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

References: 800-53|SC-28, CAT|III, CCI|CCI-001199, Rule-ID|SV-207292r961128_rule, STIG-ID|EX13-MB-000130, STIG-Legacy|SV-84613, STIG-Legacy|V-69991, Vuln-ID|V-207292

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 772b18387363ef85bda698b306ea54ed2c571ff5b52343544017ee2d537295e8