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Understanding Web Caching Concepts for the ISA Firewall

by Thomas Shinder

Tutorials / Configuration - General

Taking a look at the differences between the two types of Web caching, the architectures used to deploy multiple caching servers, and the protocols that are used by caching servers to communicate with one another.

ProxyInspector Voted ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice Award Winner - Reporting

by The Editor

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ProxyInspector was selected the winner in the Reporting category of the ISAserver.org Readers’ Choice awards. bt-LogAnalyzer and WebSpy Insight ISA Server Edition were runner-up and second runner-up respectively.

Authenticate Guest Users With Collective Software’s Captivate (Part 2)

by Thomas Shinder

Tutorials / Configuration - Security

How to configure the Captivate portal to require users to authenticate with the ISA firewall before being allowed to connect to the Internet.

How to Determine the Correct ISA Server SE Version and Service Pack Information

by Marc Grote

Tutorials / Configuration - General

How to determine the correct ISA Server 2004 or ISA Server 2006 product version and the installed ISA Server Service Pack. We will also show how to determine the installed version of the MSDE (Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine), if used and its installed Service Pack version.

• Authenticate Guest Users With Collective Software’s Captivate (Part 1)
• Product Review: Winfrasoft's Backup for ISA Server - Filling an Important Gap
• Your New ISA Firewall: ISA 2006 Service Pack 1 - Part 2: Traffic Simulator and Enhanced Diagnostic Logging
• Implementing and Troubleshooting Certificate Deployment in ISA Server 2006

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• Sep 5th, 2008 - Security Considerations with Forefront Edge Virtual Deployments

  "Virtualization of server workloads has become an increasingly popular method for making more efficient use of computer hardware and the supporting infrastructure. Virtualization provides many advantages to the data center administrator, while necessarily changing the way they create and manage their deployments. Server application virtualization is a more difficult undertaking due to the complexity of properly allocating the hardware across multiple server workloads. more...

• Sep 2nd, 2008 - Collective Software Solves the Static NAT Problem for ISA Firewalls

  For how many years have we been waiting for some kind of static NAT feature for our ISA firewalls? You know the scenario, we have multiple SMTP servers and multiple IP addresses bound to the external interface of the ISA firewall. We need to make sure that mail for the domains that we host shows the source IP address associated with the MX record for that domain, or at least represent a single rDNS record for that IP address. more...

• Sep 2nd, 2008 - Why the Forefront TMG is a Cornerstone of Essential Business Server (EBS) Network Security

  If you have not had a chance to check out the Microsoft Essential Business Server (EBS) product, you should carve out some time from your busy schedule to take a look at it. Take a look at the public preview software for EBS. EBS is a three server solution designed for small or mid-sized businesses with up to 300 PCs. The EBS solution includes three servers, which can be run as physical or virtual machines. more...

• Sep 2nd, 2008 - ISA Server Branch Office Policies Best Practices: ISA Server co-location with a domain controller

  Cat's sleeping with dogs? Fish riding bicycles? Cows with wings? ISA firewall on a DC? Tell me it's not true! For years we've been waving the flag that the ISA firewall should never, ever, never ever, never ever never never ever be installed on a domain controller. This is a key tenet on why the SBS 2003 platform could never be considered secure, since the DC was an Internet facing device and had a horked ISA firewall configuration required to support domain traffic to the firewall. more...

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