ISA SERVER BEST ANALYSER TOOL

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Procedure for importing backup

1. In the console tree of ISA Server Management, select Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006. On the Tasks tab, click Import (Restore) Configuration to start the Import Wizard.
2. After clicking on import a welcome to the export wizard page will appear on the screen. Click on next.
3. Select the Import File clicks Browse to locate the folder with the exported .xml file. Select the file, or in the File name text box, type the file name and then click Open. The Files of type box should display ISA Server export files (*.xml).
4. In Import Action page, to restore a configuration, select Overwrite (restore). Note that when you choose to overwrite the configuration, the existing configuration is erased.
5. Check both the option in below screen & click next.
6. Type the password that was used when exporting the confidential information.
7. Review your settings, and then click back to make changes or Finish to complete the wizard. When you click Finish, the configuration will be imported. When the import is complete, click OK.

Procedure for taking backup

1. In the console tree of ISA Server Management, select Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006.On the Tasks tab, click Export (Back Up) Configuration to start the Export Wizard.
2. After clicking on export a welcome to the export wizard page will appear on the screen. Click on next.
3. Select Export confidential information. Type the password that will be used to encrypt the confidential information. You will need to enter this password when importing the file. Click on next.
4. Select Export confidential information. Type the password that will be used to encrypt the confidential information. You will need to enter this password when importing the file. Click on next.
5. Review your settings, and then click back to make changes or Finish to complete the wizard. When the export is complete, click ok.

HTTP Filter configuration in ISA

1. Select an access rule that have HTTP protocol. Right click on that rule and select configure HTTP filter.
2. Select the Extension tab, select Block specified extensions and click on add and type .AVI as an extension name and click on OK buttons.
3. After adding extension click apply and ok button

Creating access rule

1. In the New Access Rule Wizard dialog box, in the Access rule name text box, type the name for access rule then click next.
2. On the Rule Action page, select Allow, and then click next.
3. On the Protocols page, in this rule applies to list box select selected protocol options then click on add and add the HTTP and HTTPS protocol.
4. On the Access Rule Sources page, click Add to selects the internal from the network and click next.
5. In the Access rule destination page click on Add and select external from networks and click next.
6. On User set click Add and from users select users and click on next.
7. On the Completing the New Access Rule Wizard page, click Finish

Key features of ISA Server 2006

I have been working with ISA Server for about couple of years and by looking at the new release of ISA Server 2006, below i have mentioned down some new key features

Share Point Portal Server Publishing wizard - ISA 2006 is designed to provide secure remote access to Share Point Portal Servers.
Full support for Exchange Server 2007 - With ISA 2006 its very simple to makes publishing of Exchange easier than ever.
Forms-based Authentication - ISA 2006 allows you to use forms-based authentication for any type of Web publishing scenario
Single Sign-on - If multiple Web sites belong to the same domain, and are published by the same Web listener, then users will not be required to reauthenticate and cached credentials are used.
Branch office VPN connectivity Wizard - ISA 2006 now has a branch office deployment wizard, that enables you to connect your branch head office to your remote office with a secure link.
Enhanced Delegation of Authentication support - ISA 2006 enhances support for authentication delegation by enabling credentials to be delegated as Kerberos, Integrated, Negotiate or basic.
Flood Resiliency - ISA 2006 includes built in mechanism to prevent exhaustion of non-paged pool memory so that even when under heavy denial of service type worm or DNS flood attacks, the ISA 2006 firewall will be able to stand up.
Enhanced remediation during attack - ISA 2006 has updated stateful packet inspection and IDS/IPS functionality.
Support for LDAP authentication - ISA Server 2006 can authenticate to an Active Directory without needing to be a member of the domain.
BITS caching - ISA Server 2006 provides the caching mechanism for data received through BITS.
Web Publishing load balancing - ISA 2006 automatically balances request streams among ISA array members.
HTTP compression - ISA 2006 performs HTTP compression that reduces file size by using algorithms to eliminate redundant data during transmission of HTTP packets.
Quality of Service - A new packet prioritization functionality is incorporated into ISA 2006, which scans the URL or domain and assigns a packet priority using Diffserv bits.
Integrated support for Password changes on logon form - ISA 2006 adds the ability for a user to change his password right in the log on form with no special configuration.
Improved Alerting - ISA 2006 adds a number of new alerts that help information the ISA administrator of configuration issues, certificate issue, security issues, and threat triggers.

History of ISA Server

if we look in past few year before coming of ISA2006 and 2004.ISA is known as a name of proxy server. The below mentioned are the different edition of ISA server

1. Proxy server 1.0:- This was the first edition of microsoft isa server launched in January 1997.It worked but not up to the mark due to some limitations i,e It supported only a few basic Internet protocols and its implemented security tool functions were rather obsolete.
2. Proxy server 2.0 :- This was the second edition of isa server launched by the microsoft in December 1997 with many useful and expected functions.One great application of this tool is to use Windows NT account databases. Therefore, user management within the enterprise has been considerably simplified. Many more protocols are supported, as well as caching services, packet filtering capability and considerably enhanced security performance have also been incorporated. Although it was an improved version.If you want to know more about this server you can click on below link
3. ISA Server 2000 :- On the 18th of March 2001, Microsoft launched ISA 2000.This is the third edition of isa server in the market with some advanced feature. ISA 2000 introduced the Standard and Enterprise editions which ISA continues to ship under, with Enterprise-grade functionality such as High-Availability clustering not included in the Standard Edition. ISA 2000 required windows 2000(any edition), and will also run on window server 2003.
4. ISA server 2004 :- On the 8th September 2004 this is the new and upgraded version from olders one ISA 2004 introduced with multi-networking support, integrated virtual private networking configuration, extensible user and authentication models, Application-Layer Firewall support, support for the H.323 protocol, Active Directory Integration, Secure NAT, Secure Server Publishing, and improved management features.ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition included array support, integrated Network Load Balancing (NLB), and Cache Array Routing Protocol (CARP). One of the core capabilities of ISA Server 2004 was its ability to securely publish Web servers. Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 is available in two editions, Standard and Enterprise. Enterprise Edition contains features enabling policies to be configured on an array level, rather than on individual ISA Servers, and load-balancing across multiple ISA Servers.
5. ISA Server 2006 :- The present version of ISA Server is ISA 2006, released on 17th October 2006. ISA 2006 is designed to run on the Window server 2003 and Window server 2003 R2 platforms (ISA 2006 drops support for Window 2000 .ISA 2006 is a stateful packet and application layer inspection firewall, VPN and web cache (both forward caching and reverse caching) server.
   ISA 2006 introduces a variety of improvements upon the previous version, ISA 2004, including support for authentication via Secure LDAP to multiple LDAPS providers or Active Directory forests, integrated support for Exchange 2007 (also backported to ISA 2004), support for publishing Microsoft share point, Single sign on, Cross-Array Link Translation, Web Publishing Load Balancing (with cookie-based affinity for Integrated NLBS) as well as variety of improvements to wizards such as a Branch Office VPN Connection Wizard, improved certificate management and Link translation.

how to configure isa in NLB mode

this is very simple to do first configure two server with window server operating system and three NIC cards.Connect on NIC to both server which work as a heartbeat to sense the stability of one another.Install ISA as a CSS on Ist server and you do the same on second server but when it ask for CSS server just add the Ist server name and it will start installing.
After full installation you have to restart the server and when they comeup both work up in NLB mode.

ISA SERVER

Isa server 2006 is latest and advanced product of MICROSOFT which is advanced than its previous versions(ISA 2004).