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You work as a Network Administrator for Tech-E-book Inc. You are configuring the ISA Server 2006 firewall to provide your company with a secure wireless intranet. You want to accept inbound mail deliv

The correct answer is B. Publishing rules. ISA Server 2006 publishing rules are required to allow inbound connections from external clients to internal servers such as an SMTP mail server.

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You work as a Network Administrator for Tech-E-book Inc. You are configuring the ISA Server 2006 firewall to provide your company with a secure wireless intranet. You want to accept inbound mail delivery though an SMTP server. What basic rules of ISA Server do you need to configure to accomplish the task.

Options

  • ANetwork rules
  • BPublishing rules
  • CMailbox rules
  • DAccess rules

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(39 responses)
  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    77% (30)
  • C
    15% (6)
  • D
    5% (2)

Why each option

ISA Server 2006 publishing rules are required to allow inbound connections from external clients to internal servers such as an SMTP mail server.

ANetwork rules

Network rules define allowed communication paths between network objects (e.g., Internal to External), but do not control inbound access to specific published internal servers.

BPublishing rulesCorrect

Server Publishing Rules in ISA Server 2006 are specifically designed to securely expose internal servers to external networks. For inbound SMTP mail delivery, a Server Publishing Rule forwards incoming TCP port 25 traffic from the external network to the internal SMTP server, enabling controlled inbound mail acceptance without exposing the server directly.

CMailbox rules

Mailbox rules are an Exchange Server email filtering feature and do not exist as a rule type within ISA Server 2006 firewall configuration.

DAccess rules

Access rules govern outbound traffic initiated by internal clients toward external destinations and cannot be used to accept inbound connections from external clients.

Concept tested: ISA Server 2006 server publishing rules for inbound SMTP

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/tn-archive/cc302587(v=technet.10)

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#ISA Server#publishing rules#SMTP relay#firewall configuration

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