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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:16 PM

TRANSFERRING CONFIGURATION STORAGE SERVER FSMO ROLES

As with most of my blogs this one was inspired by real events. Occasionally you may have a need to remove a primary Configuration Storage Server (CSS). Configuration Storage Servers are a component of ISA Server 2004 or 2006 Enterprise Edition and all
Posted by isablog | 5 Comments
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:39 AM

Forefront TMG Beta 2: SDK Available

Hi ISA/TMG Community: I thought I would drop a quick note to the community and let everyone know that the SDK for TMG is already available on MSDN. We have recently been receiving a number of queries from partners and potential new ISVs who want to start
Posted by isablog | 1 Comments
Monday, March 30, 2009 1:34 AM

MS09-008 may affect ISA Server or Forefront TMG Deployments

Last year Rayne Wiselman wrote in the ISABlog about the Windows Server 2008 DNS Block Feature and how this behavior can impact ISA Server deployments. With MS09-008 applied, the wpad and isatap blocking behavior is now present in Windows XP Professional
Posted by isablog | 0 Comments
Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:06 PM

Clients receives error 691 trying to connect to ISA Server 2006 as VPN Server

1. Introduction When ISA Server 2006 is configured to be a VPN Server there is always a doubt of what to do when something happens and data needs to be gathered since there are two major components in use: ISA Server and Windows RRAS. Depending on the
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Monday, March 16, 2009 8:52 PM

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Service Pack 3 fails to install on a TMG machine

Problem description As you know, Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Beta2 and TMG Medium Business Edition (that ships in Windows Essential Business Server 2008) make use of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (SSE) and SQL 2005 Reporting Services for
Posted by isablog | 3 Comments
Monday, March 16, 2009 7:28 PM

Best practices for configuring ISA/TMG to allow SQM data

Consider a scenario where you have an Access Rule in ISA/TMG that uses a Domain Name Set for non web traffic (other than HTTP and HTTPS ) especially like selecting “All Outbound Traffic” then ISA will perform a reverse lookup to check whether destination
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:14 AM

Unable to Start Microsoft Firewall Service in ISA Server 2006

1. Introduction This scenario is based on a real experience that I was able to reproduce in a lab. The issue was that the Microsoft Firewall Service was not starting and was showing the following error message when tries to manually start: Figure 1 –
Posted by isablog | 2 Comments
Monday, March 09, 2009 3:54 PM

It worked for us: honey pot sensor catches malware

A terrific demonstration of the value of the Security Assessment Sharing (SAS) feature of Microsoft Forefront Codename “Stirling” just took place inside of one of the labs that we configured for testing. In the lab environment, a Forefront Threat Management
Posted by isablog | 1 Comments
Saturday, March 07, 2009 7:10 AM

Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 is Common Criteria Evaluated

I am very excited to announce to the community that we have completed our Common Criteria evaluation of ISA Server 2006 for both the Standard and Enterprise Editions . We started this evaluation during the development cycle of ISA 2006 and the evaluation
Posted by isablog | 6 Comments
Friday, March 06, 2009 2:44 AM

New Articles at Tales from the Edge

We just published two new articles at Tales from the Edge Community Site . Check it out here: Another Look at Server Publishing in ISA Server 2006 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd547089.aspx Considerations when Renewing Web Listener Certificates
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 10:36 PM

How to Allow HTTP 301 through ISA Server 2006

Introduction When you publish a web site through ISA Server 2006 and you configure the action to take for requests that matches that rule to deny (see Figure 1) and redirect the user for another URL. What is happening behind the scenes is that ISA Server
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