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In some scenarios an organization will want to prevent email users from sending messages to certain external domain names.  This can be achieved with Exchange Server 2007 using a Transport Rule. Open the Exchange Management Console and navigate to  Organization Config/Hub Transport . Start a  New Transport Rule . Give the rule an appropriate name and description. Choose conditions of “ From users inside the organization ” and “ When a message header contains specific words “.  Click on “ message header ” and change it to “ To ” (without the quotes), and then click on “ specific words ” and add the domain name, for example “ @fabrikam ” (again without quotes). Click Next and choose actions of “ Send bounce message to sender… ” and “ Silently drop the message “. You can modify the bounce message that is sent to the sender so that they or the IT admins can easily tell why the email was rejected. Complete the Transport Rule wizard and test the new...

FTP sites using both the GUI (IIS Manager) and scripts included in Windows Server 2003. The specific tasks we''ll walk through in this article are: Creating an FTP Site Controlling Access to an FTP Site Configuring FTP Site Logging Stopping and Starting FTP Sites Implementing FTP User Isolation For sake of interest, we''ll again explain these tasks in the context of a fictitious company called TestCorp as it deploys FTP sites for both its corporate intranet and for anonymous users on the Internet. Preliminary Steps As mentioned in the previous article, IIS is not installed by default during a standard installation of Windows Server 2003, and if you installed IIS using Manage Your Server as described in the previous article this installs the WWW service but not the FTP service. So before we can create FTP sites we first have to install the FTP service on our IIS machine. To do this, we need to add an additional component to the Application Server role we a...