Welcome to Marc Grote's Section

Marc Grote is an MCSA/MCSE Messaging & Security, an MCTS/MCITP and a Microsoft Certified Trainer and MCLC. He is a freelance IT Trainer and Consultant in the north of Germany near Hanover. He works with Invenate GmbH on special projects. You can find more information about Invenate at http://www.invenate.de. He specializes in ISA Server, Exchange, Security for Windows 2000/2003 and Windows Server 2008 designs, migrations and implementations, and Citrix Metaframe implementations. His efforts have earned him recognition as a Microsoft MVP for ISA Server since 2004. You can visit his homepage at http://www.it-training-grote.de.

You can also visit his NTFAQ section on http://www.nt-faq.de with thousands of tips and tricks for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP and Windows Server System.

The following Link will direct you to an actual collection of administrative templates to use with Windows 2000/2003 Group Policies: http://www.adm-files.de

Books

ISA Server 2006

Get your copy of the German language "Microsoft ISA Server 2006 - Das Handbuch"

ISA Server 2004

Get your copy of the German language "Microsoft ISA Server 2004 - Das Handbuch"

Marc Grote's Latest Contributions

How to automatically deploy the Microsoft Firewall client: Date - Apr 08, 2008; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - Security; How to automatically deploy the Microsoft ISA Server 2006 Firewall client for Windows XP and Windows Vista clients with the help of the Software distribution process through Windows Server 2003 Group Policies.
ISA Server Tools: Date - Mar 25, 2008; Section - Tutorials / General Guides and Articles; An overview of the different tools available for ISA Server 2004 and ISA Server 2006.
Firewall Logging using a Microsoft SQL database: Date - Mar 11, 2008; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - General; How to set up ISA Server 2006 firewall logging with a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database.
ISA Server 2006 Backup and Restore Capabilities: Date - Feb 26, 2008; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - General; How to back up and restore the entire ISA Server 2006 configuration or parts of the configuration and how to back up ISA Server log files.
ISA Server 2006 Flood Mitigation: Date - Feb 12, 2008; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - Security; How ISA Server 2006 Flood Mitigation protects against different attacks like SYN flooding, worms, and an unexpected large number of TCP and/or UDP connections.
ISA Server 2006 MSDE Password Management: Date - Jan 22, 2008; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - Security; How to configure ISA Server 2006 MSDE logging features to assign a custom password to the SA account for the MSFW database instance which ISA Server 2006 uses by default for logging purposes.
ISA Best Practices Analyzer and Visio: Date - Jan 15, 2008; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - General; How to use the ISA Server Best Practice Analyzer with Visio. With the help of this tool it is possible to create a Microsoft Visio network diagram of your ISA Server environment for documentation purposes.
Configuring the ISA Server 2006 HTTP Filter: Date - Feb 08, 2007; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - Security; An overview of the ISA Server 2006 HTTP Filter and how to use this HTTP Filter to protect your internal network.
Implementing an IPSEC Site to Site VPN between ISA Server 2006 Beta and Cisco PIX 501: Date - Jun 08, 2006; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - Alt. Products & Platforms; In this article I will give you a Step by Step Solution on how to implement a Site to Site VPN with Cisco PIX and ISA Server 2006.
ISA Server 2006 Overview: Date - May 04, 2006; Section - Articles; In this article I will try to give you a high level overview of the new features in Microsoft ISA Server 2006.
Installing and Configuring Microsoft ISA Server 2004 SP2: Date - Mar 02, 2006; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - General; ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2 is the next logical step in Security for ISA Server 2004. ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2 has many new features like HTTP compression, caching of BITS-Updates, Diffserv for HTTP and some other enhancements. In this article I will show you how to install Service Pack 2 and I will give you a high level overview about the new features.
ISA Server 2004 Best Practice Analyzer: Date - Feb 16, 2006; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - General; In this article I will show you how to install and use the ISA Best Practice Analyzer (ISABPA). You can use ISABPA to analyze your ISA Server 2004 environment for security holes, performance problems and configuration mismatches.
Configuring ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition – Part 4 – Implementing CARP and NLB: Date - Dec 01, 2005; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - General; This is the final article of a four part article series which will show you how to enable CARP and NLB.
Configuring ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition – Part 3 – Administering ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Arrays: Date - Nov 24, 2005; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - General; This is the third part article of a four part article series which will show you how to manage ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Arrays.
Installing ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition – Part 2 – Installing ISA Server 2004 Firewall on two Servers: Date - Nov 10, 2005; Section - Tutorials / Installation & Planning; This is the second part article of a four part article series which will show you how to install and configuring ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition on two ISA Server Firewall members.
Installing ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition – Part 1 – Installing and Configuring the Configuration Storage Server: Date - Oct 27, 2005; Section - Tutorials / Installation & Planning; With his first article for ISAserver.org, we would like to welcome ISA Server MVP Marc Grote who for the past two years has contributed many excellent articles to our sister site - MSExchange.org. This is the first article of a four part series which will show you how to install and configure ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition. In the first part Marc will show you how to install and configure the Configuration Storage Server.