SBS2003 - Required Ports
This information comes from the Microsoft “Securing your SBS2003 Network” document, which can be found at: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/f/1/1f15a874-f696-4992-b5ad-b1e7b258de1c/SecuringSBSnetwork.doc
Services and TCP Port Numbers
|
Service |
TCP Port Number |
Inbound Access
Recommendations |
|
E-mail |
25 |
Allow if you are using Exchange to receive Internet e-mail. |
|
Web server |
80 (required for HTTP requests for your site) and 443 (required for HTTPS requests using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which secures communications from your server and a Web browser) |
Allow if users on the Internet need to access specific Web-site services on your server.
Web-site services that use port 80 and/or port 443 include the following:
-Microsoft® Office Outlook® Web Access (OWA)
-Windows Small Business Server 2003 server performance and usage reports
-Outlook Mobile Access (OMA).
-Business Web site (wwwroot), which allows users to access the company's Internet Web site from the Internet.
-Outlook via the Internet (RPC over HTTP) feature of Outlook 2003. |
|
Windows SharePoint Services intranet site |
444 |
Allow if users securely access the intranet Web site created by Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint™ Services from the Internet. |
|
Remote Web Workplace |
4125 and 443 |
Allow if users securely access Remote Web Workplace to:
-Connect to the local network from OWA
-Create a direct Remote Desktop Web (RWW) Connection to client computers on the local network.
-Use the Windows SharePoint Services intranet site (this also requires port 444, as noted above).
-Download Connection Manager to configure the remote client computer for remote access (using remote access also requires that port 1723 be open, as noted below). |
|
Virtual private network (VPN) |
1723 |
Allow if remote clients connect securely to the network using a VPN connection to use resources as if the client was connected locally. |
|
Terminal Services |
3389 |
Allow if remote clients connect to the computer running Windows Small Business Server 2003 using Terminal Services. |
|
File transfer protocol (FTP) |
21 |
Allow if remote clients use file transfer protocol (FTP) to connect to the computer running Windows Small Business Server 2003. |