Release Candidate 2 for Windows Server 2003 SP1 is available to test from microsoft.com, which means RTM can't be that far away! A new feature in SP1 (at least, present in the RC2 build of SP1) that's been causing some confusion is RDP over SSL - a new...

Newsgroup question: I don't want ISA to actually do the RADIUS stuff, but I want to publish a RADIUS server (in Microsoft land, that's called IAS - Internet Authentication Service - if you're running Windows Server) behind ISA so that we can authenticate...

Forms-Based Authentication in ISA 2004 is a nifty new feature that emulates Exchange 2003's FBA authentication option (and allows you to put it out front of OWA versions prior to 2003 - that is, you can use ISA 2004 to provide FBA authentication for Outlook...

'nuff said! See http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/ for more information. March 1 is the general availability date, but there's a trial CD available for order now. The trial download's currently scheduled for March 1. I'm still learning about the cool...

With ISA 2000, while "All IP Traffic" rules were open slather for Firewall clients, they actually meant "All IP Traffic For Which I Have A Protocol Definition" for SecureNAT clients. With ISA 2004, that's no longer the case, it really means everything...

The verb form of "Google" seems to have become the commonly accepted form of "searching using Google": "I googled myself today...", "I'm googling it...", "Google me!", "Go And Get Googled" (when someone asks a question verbally using only search terms...

Just a quickie: As I've mentioned in passing a couple of times, when using ISA 2004 Protocol Definitions can have multiple primary ports - including ranges of primary ports - associated with them. ISA 2000 was only able to use a single primary port per...

Ah, the Sean Connery accent PasteOff jokes just keep on rolling. Matt noted that PasteOff is a "huge memory hog", using 12 MB from a cold start and 24 when noodling around after a while. It's working set bloat! It's not my fault! If it bugs you (and it...

JJ's posted a bit about a role in our Platforms team , which is where I work. I thought I'd burble on for a little while on the sort of stuff we handle: Platforms locally handle Windows itself, and most of the in-box and add-on technologies (like AD ...

Noticed that a new blog has popped up, specifically about running ISA Server with Small Business Server .