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Microsoft SBS 2003 IPv6 Readiness

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Overview

Your contemplating running IPv6, your using Microsoft products, and you want to know what will work, and what wont? Below is a table from testing that IFM has done using SBS 2003 with SP1 and XP SP2.

ServiceWorks?Comments
OWAYesNo issues with Outlook Web Access.
File and Printer SharingYesNo issues.
FRSYesNo issues with File Replication Service (or domain controllers or Active Directory) in general.
SharepointYesNo issues (but not heavily tested).
IASYesNo issues with Internet Authentication Service (but not heavily tested).
IISBarelyIf by "works" you mean can it serve up WWW pages, then yes, it works. However, most of the security restrictions (such as by IP address) don't work, and worse still, even if you have applied restrictions on an IPv4 site IPv6 connected people will still be able to access the site without restrictions. Big security holes.
RPC over HTTPS proxyNoThe RPC proxy itself works, but it fails when it tries to pass the call off to the actual RPC service.
Microsoft fax ServerNoClients are completely unable to submit faxes via the fax printer driver.
DNS ServerMostlyYou can make queries to it and get results. However if you host a domain with IPv6 AAAA NS records, then the server fails to return the AAAA glue records (only returns A glue records). Also, it is rather painful trying to make the DNS server actually accept IPv6 AAAA NS records.
Exchange 2003YesNo issues.
SQL Server 2000YesNo issues (but not heavily tested).
ISADon't knowWhat, you actually use this piece of software? Throw it away, and buy yourself a proper firewall!