Ever wonder what access a specific user or group has through the ISA Firewall? While you could fish through your firewall policies and figure it out, sometimes there are so many rules controlling so many protocols and sites, it's hard to see the forest from the trees. In that case, you can use a new tool called ISA User Access Check. more...
The Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 (IAG 2007) is an SSL VPN gateway that supports all types of SSL VPNs. We've covered the IAG 2007 a bit on this site and look forward to even more comprehensive coverage in the future. One of the issues that have hamstrung our efforts to popularize the IAG is that no software version of the solution was available. That's where today's good news comes in. more...
Last week I told you guys about "Stirling", the sophisticated new technology that Microsoft will use to tie together all of the products that participate in the Forefront Security line of products, as well as some of Windows Server 2008 platform security technologies (such as NAP). I also provided a link to the Stirling download. more...
Looking to add X-Forwarded-For functionality to your ISA Server proxy infrastructure like Squid, Apache, F5 Big-IP, Blue Coat, Cisco Cache Engine, Netcache etc? Now you can! Winfrasoft X-Forwarded-For for ISA Server adds the ability to track the source IP address of a client PC through a proxy server chain. This is very useful for log analysis when branch offices connect to the Internet via a head office proxy server, and many other scenarios where multiple proxy server layers are used. more...
There have been a lot of changes to the MVP program this year, no more so than for ISA Firewall MVPs. Earlier this year, all of the ISA Firewall MVPs were moved from ISA Server MVPs to Forefront MVPs. It's a major change, but one that presents a lot of opportunities for ISA Firewall MVPs, as they moved from the old ISA Firewall to the upcoming Forefront Threat Management Gateway (the next version of the ISA Firewall). more...
If you haven't already heard about this from reading the industry news that took place last week at the RSA conference, this will come as a surprise to you. It was announced at RSA that the ISA Firewall's life will end with ISA Server 2006. As an ISA 2006 firewall admin, you are now administering the last version of the ISA Firewall. In the future, the ISA Firewall will be renamed the Forefront Threat Management Gateway, or TMG. I've been with you from the beginning of the life of the ISA Firewall. more...
New York School District Stops Students from Accessing Tunnel Web Sites with Burstek Software View in PDF FORT MYERS, FL - March 7, 2008 – Burstek and client Jordan-Elbridge Central School District want to let parents and school administrators everywhere know about a new twist in the growing problem of student access to inappropriate Web content from school networks: Anonymous proxy sites. more...
The ISA Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their ISA Server computers and to diagnose current problems. The tool scans the configuration settings of the local ISA Server computer and reports issues that do not conform to the recommended best practices. more...
You might remember collective software -- they're the smart guys who put together several great solutions for ISA Firewall admins. The best among them being ClearTunnel, which allows you to perform outbound SSL bridging and LCS-bridge, which allows you to use SIP with LCS sites published behind the ISA Firewall. Collective Software has to do a lot of debugging when working with their products and the ISA Firewall, so they made a very cool debugging tool to help them with their work. more...
Dr. Tom Shinders ISA Server 2006 Migration Guide provides a clear, concise, and thorough path to migrate from previous versions of ISA Server to ISA Server 2006. ISA Server 2006 is an incremental upgrade from ISA Server 2004, this book provides all of the tips and tricks to perform a successful migration, rather than rehash all of the features which were rolled out in ISA Server 2004. Also, learn to publish Exchange Server 2007 with ISA 2006 and to build a DMZ. more...