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• ISA 2004 Administrative Delegation

  In the same way that you can delegate control over Acitve Directory, Exchange, and other Microsoft servers, ISA also supports administrative delegation. By delegating control over your ISA server, you can specify the amount of control your IT staff has Read More... Posted Friday, March 03, 2006 6:03 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server

• Enabling HTTP Compression in ISA 2004

  Finally! With the release of ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2 comes support for HTTP compression. HTTP compression is used to reduce file size by using the industry standard GZIP and Deflate algorithms. These algorithms are built into Windows 2000 Server Read More... Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:01 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server

• Enable BITS Caching In ISA 2004

  The Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) allows the transfer of large amounts of data without impacting network performance. It is able to dothis by transferring data in smaller chunks, using unused bandwidth when available, and then reassembling Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:47 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server

• Providing QoS with Diffserv in ISA 2004

  One of the new features in ISA 2004 SP2 is Diffserv. Diffserv is a method of packet prioritization that applies to all web traffic passing through an ISA 2004 SP2 Server. Using the Diffserv Web filter, the ISA server can scan the Uniform Resource Locator Read More... Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 5:23 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server

• Using ISA 2004 as a PPTP VPN Server Pt.2 - Access Rules

  In Part 1 of Using ISA 2004 as a PPTP VPN Server, we went over the server configuration to enable ISA 2004 to act as a VPN server. All that is left is to configure the access rules, and test the connection out! To configure the access rules, open up the Read More... Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 6:11 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server

• Using ISA 2004 as a PPTP VPN Server Pt.1 - Server Config

  Setting up a PPTP VPN server on ISA 2004 is easy, requires no Client Access Licences (CALs) and secure. Instead of letting traffic through your firewall to the VPN server and then authenticating, no traffic gets through until the user has authenticated. Read More... Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 5:39 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server

• ISA 2004 Remote Administration

  I hate having multiple RDP sessions open to my servers (although the Remote Desktops MMC is nice), so I have installed Adminpak.msi, Exchange System Manager and ISA Server Management on my XP Workstation to cut down on these RDP sessions and make life Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 5:58 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server

• Allowing ISA 2004 to Use SUS/WUS/WSUS

  Patching workstations and servers has been made a lot easier with the implementation of SUS/WUS/WSUS on your network. In order to update your ISA 2004 Server with your *US server, a new Access Rule must be created. Its a pretty straightforward procedure Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:21 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server

• Introduction to Remote Access Quarantine

  Windows Server 2003 SP1 includes a new feature called Remote Access Quarantine. With RAQ you can specify a set of requirements that VPN clients must meet before they are given access to the network. If the client does not meet the requirements you set Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 6:30 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server, Security, Windows Server

• Publishing PASV FTP Servers with ISA 2004

  FTP Servers support PORT and PASV mode. By default the FTP Server publishing rule in ISA 2004 does not support PASV mode, but we can change this! I have an FTP server set up to transfer files around between my laptop, work PC and between my virtual network Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2005 6:50 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server

• Blocking URL's and Domains with ISA 2004

  Locking down web access is a must in today's IT enviroment. Spyware, Adware, harassment lawuits are among the few things that wide open web access can give you. I know if two businesses that had sexual harrasment lawsuits brought against them due to one Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 8:17 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server

• Limiting MSDE Memory Usage

  A lot of Microsoft server products are using Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) which is based on Microsoft SQL Server technology. ISA 2004 is one of these products. I recently began having an "issue" with memory usage on my ISA 2004 and did some digging to Read More... Posted Friday, April 29, 2005 8:26 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server

• Blocking Instant Messengers With ISA Server

  Instant Messenger services are popular and can be quite insecure. As an example, the recent Bropia worm was spread through MSN Messenger forcing a mandatory upgrade of the IM client. For this reason you may wish to block IM traffic and prevent your users Read More... Posted Friday, March 04, 2005 7:57 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: ISA Server