The ability to encrypt FTP traffic with SSL was first introduced in FTP 7.5 and called Secure Publishing. Thus, the transfer of data with FTP on these platforms (as with all older Windows Server platforms with built-in FTP servers) is unencrypted and can be intercepted while in transit.

With that being said, you might not want to use Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Web Server 2008 as an FTP server, since these two Windows Server editions do not offer the ability to run an FTP server with SSL. Windows Server 2008, Windows Web Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012 all came with IIS, which is the main Server Role to turn Windows Server into an FTP server. Because the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is adjacent, today, in its use cases to web servers, Microsoft has shared the FTP Server Role Service under the Internet Information Services (IIS) Server Role, like the many web server Role Services I discussed in the previous part of this series.ĭue to this grouping, you can use any Server Core installation as an FTP server, just as you can use any Server Core installation as a web server.

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