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V-259645CAT II — Medium severitySV-259645r960759_rule

Exchange must use encryption for RPC client access.

Rule version EX19-MB-000006 · STIG v2 · 2025-05-14

Discussion

This setting controls whether client machines are forced to use secure channels to communicate with the server. If this feature is enabled, clients will only be able to communicate with the server over secure communication channels.

Failure to require secure connections to the client access server increases the potential for unintended eavesdropping or data loss.

Check

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Get-RpcClientAccess | Select-Object -Property Server, Name, EncryptionRequired

If the value of "EncryptionRequired" is not set to "True", this is a finding.

Note: This is configured as "True" by default.

Fix

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Set-RpcClientAccess -Server <ServerName> -EncryptionRequired $true

Identifiers

Group ID
V-259645
Group title
SRG-APP-000014
Rule ID
SV-259645r960759_rule
Check ID
C-63384r942247_chk
Fix ID
F-63292r942248_fix