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Articles & Tutorials for April, 2005

Creating URL and Domain Deny Lists using ISA Server 2004: Date - Apr 27, 2005; Author - Greg Mulholland; Section - Articles; One of the great benefits of the ISA firewall in both the 2000 and 2004 versions is its ability to block access to any specific Web URL or domain or indeed a compiled list of such. In this article I'll show you how to block these sites, and even maybe how to wrestle an alligator. Check it out!
Blocklists for ISA Firewalls: Date - Apr 26, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - News; Rich Krol comes to the ISA firewall community's rescue with a couple of great blocklists already XML'd and ready for import into your ISA firewall configuration.
ISA Server 2004 is Ignoring my Web Publishing Rule: Date - Apr 26, 2005; Author - Santhosh Sivarajan; Section - Articles; I heard the following comment from a few clients: "ISA Server is ignoring my server publishing rule and it is always using the default rule". This will happen especially if you are working on a complicated network where the ISA firewall and the application servers are on different subnets. Check out this article for an explanation why this happens and a solution.
Topic: Win2003 SP1 and MS05-019 Connectivity Issues - Hotfix Available: Date - Apr 25, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - News; Win2003 SP1, or Win2000/XP/2003 + MS05-019 clients encounter connectivity issues in various scenarios. This is caused by the host ignoring ICMP Destination Unreachanble - Next Hop messages from intermediate devices. A hotfix is now available for this.
Introducing RoadBLOCK: A Unique Approach to ISA-based Firewall Appliances: Date - Apr 20, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - News; An introduction into the workings of Roadblock. We will take you through all the features and highlights that make RoadBLOCk a unique offering for businesses serious about security. Tom Shinder discusses and demonstrates the RoadBLOCK's collection of application layer inspection enhancements.
A Day in the Life - Challenges and Solutions to Securing Exchange Servers: Date - Apr 20, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - News; This webinar will deliver solutions to the typical challenges a network administrator faces in architecting and configuring a layered defense. Obtain real-world examples of how to secure Microsoft Exchange Server. Tom Shinder shares his insights regarding the ISA firewall's exceptional and unique protection for Microsoft Exchange Servers and services.
Configuring an Untrusted Wireless DMZ on the ISA Firewall - Part 2: Installing and Configuring the ISA Firewall: Date - Apr 17, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Articles; In part 1 of this two part series on how to create an untrusted wireless DMZ segment on the ISA firewall, we discussed the basic infrastructure elements required to make the solution work. We then went into detail on how to create a split DNS infrastructure to support the wireless DMZ segment. In this, part 2 of the two part series, we’ll finish up by going over the ISA firewall configuration details to complete the solution.
Updated Firewall Client Tools for ISA Server 2004 Now Available: Date - Apr 12, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - News; New Firewall client tools now available that fix ISA 2004 SP1 issues.
Implementing Checkpoint NG R55 Firewall and Microsoft ISA 2004 Firewall IPSec Site-to-Site VPN: Date - Apr 12, 2005; Author - Idan Plotnick; Section - Articles; As you already know, the Microsoft ISA 2004 firewall is a stateful packet and application layer inspection firewall that is becoming increasingly popular among the security experts and corporate firewall administrators. They understand Microsoft ISA 2004 is the best security solution for Microsoft environments, and often for non-Microsoft environments. In this article I will show you the process you need to accomplish to configure site-to-site VPN between the ISA 2004 firewall and Checkpoint NG R55.
Configuring an Untrusted Wireless DMZ on the ISA Firewall: Part 1: Defining the Infrastructure and Setting Up the Split DNS: Date - Apr 09, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - Security; A popular request over the years on the ISAServer.org Web boards and mailing list is how to configure DMZ segments on the ISA firewall. One of the great improvements included with the new ISA firewall (ISA Server 2004) is its enhanced support for multiple networks. You can configure an ISA firewall with as many NICs as you like, and then use ISA firewall Firewall Policy to control all traffic between any two Networks moving through the ISA firewall. In this, part 1 of a two part series, we'll go over the details of the DMZ infrastructure and how to configure a split DNS to provide enhanced support for the solution.
BitDefender Announces Antivirus Support for 2004 ISA Firewalls: Date - Apr 09, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - News; BitDefender Launches ISA Server Antivirus application that enhances the ISA firewall's stateful application layer inspection engine.
MOM 2005 Management Pack Now Available for ISA Server 2004 Firewalls: Date - Apr 07, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - News; MOM Pack for ISA Server 2004 firewalls now available. This ISA firewall Management Pack for MOM allows you to monitor and maintain ISA Standard and Enterprise Edition firewalls and firewall arrays.
ISA Server 2000 SP2 and Windows 2003 SP1 VPN Issues: Date - Apr 06, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - News; Reports of VPN problems have been appearing in the public newsgroups regarding ISA Server 2000 Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 installation. Mainly VPN connections failures after 1-5 minutes. Click the link for details.
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Breaks RPC for ISA Server and How to Fix It (updated): Date - Apr 06, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - News; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 breaks the ISA firewall's RPC filter. There are fixes available for both ISA Server 2000 and ISA Server 2004. Click the link for details.
Network Engines Co-Sponsors Microsoft TS2 Events: Date - Apr 06, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - News; Network Engines, Inc., (NASDAQ-NENG), a leading OEM appliance partner for Microsoft security solutions, today announced that it is a co-sponsor for Microsoft(R) Corporation's TS2 Seminars.
Allowing the ISA 2004 Firewall to use Windows Update Services: Date - Apr 05, 2005; Author - Steve Moffat; Section - Articles; Steve Moffat provides a step by step walkthrough on allowing the ISA firewall to use Windows Update Services.
Secure Remote Access to Outlook Web Access (OWA) Web Sites: Part 1: Understanding SSL to SSL Bridging (Version 2.1): Date - Apr 03, 2005; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Tutorials / Configuration - Security; One of the main reasons to bring ISA firewalls into your organization is to provide unique level of protection for remote access connections to your Exchanger Servers and services. In fact, if I were Bill Gates, I would require the product group to rename the ISA firewall from Internet Security and Acceleration Server to Firewall for Microsoft Exchange Server. That is how significant the ISA firewall’s Exchange protection technologies are and how it stands head and shoulders above virtually every firewall on the market when it comes to security. In this article we'll dive into a key ISA firewall OWA security technology -- SSL to SSL Bridging.