Check: Exch-1-315
Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server STIG:
Exch-1-315
(in versions v1 r10 through v1 r9)
Title
Mailbox database must not be overwritten by a restore. (Cat III impact)
Discussion
Email system availability depends in part on best practices strategies for setting tuning configurations. Unauthorized or accidental restoration of mailbox data risks data loss or corruption. This setting controls whether the mailbox store can be overwritten by a 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 afterwards. During production windows, this feature must be disabled.
Check Content
Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command: Get-MailboxDatabase| Select Name, Identity, AllowFileRestore If the value of 'AllowFileRestore' is not set to 'False', this is a finding.
Fix Text
Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command: Set-MailboxDatabase <'MailboxDatabaseName'> -AllowFileRestore $false
Additional Identifiers
Rule ID: SV-44022r1_rule
Vulnerability ID: V-33602
Group Title: Exch-1-315
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