This document provides guidelines on how to design your firewall policy, including tips on ordering your policy rules to improve the performance of your computers running Microsoft® Internet and Security Acceleration (ISA) Server services.
This document includes the following topics:
Firewall Policy Best Practices. Tips for both Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition firewall policies.
Enterprise Policy Design. How […]

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Microsoft® Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 application filters provide an extra layer of security at the Microsoft Firewall service. Application filters can access the data stream or datagrams associated with a session within the Firewall service. Application filters are registered with the Firewall service and work with some or all of the application-level […]

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First we need to download the actual Firewall client from the Microsoft ISA Server website. The actual Firewall client supports Microsoft Windows Vista and older operating systems like Windows XP and Windows Server 2000.
There are a number of versions of Firewall Client software:

The latest version (v. 3442.654 at the time of writing) is available as […]

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One of the unmentioned issues regarding ISA Firewall security for published Web sites relates to the potential for denial of service attacks on user accounts due to pre-authentication at the ISA Firewall.
How can this happen? If your company has implemented an account lockout policy for user accounts that fail to provide a correct password, […]

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DNS name resolution issues continue to be problematic for large numbers of network and firewall administrators because of the inherent complexity of DNS design and deployment. To help solve some of the more common DNS related problems, this article will cover the following issues:
Exchange Server 2003 outbound name resolution issues
The Exchange Server must be able […]

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ISA Server 2006 makes it easy to back up the entire configuration or parts of the configuration for backup purposes in case of emergency or to simply back up a configuration to clone this configuration with another ISA Server. ISA Server 2006 uses the VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) writer that exports the configuration to […]

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It’s one thing to have administrators generating reports for your ISA Server every week or month and having to extract those logs when managers and architects want to see how and what your ISA Server is doing, but what if they could extract those reports themselves? Here’s how.
Initially, one will have to install IIS on […]

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