ISA Server 2004 has shipped (last week)!
Well I must have blinked because I missed it first time around. I, along with many others, found ISA Server 2000 a bit tricky to configure and the product team have done a great job in making ISA Server 2004 much, much easier. But not only that, there is a plethora of new features that made me wonder what on earth was in the previous version! Click here to see the list of what’s new.
Product Info: http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/
Eval download: http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/evaluation/trial/
If you’re running on Windows Server 2003, then you can download a tool to turn ISA Server 2004 into a Remote Quarantine Server (RQS). To do this you need the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit and the updated RSQ.exe file.
One little gotcha that had me was that when upgrading from ISA Server 2000 to 2004, the migration wizard will only work if you have installed ISA Server 2000 SP1 or later first! Oops, I didn’t realize they were available L here, and I had hoped that MBSA 1.2 would have informed me of this short-coming… Oh well, I’ll never make a SysAdmin.
I seem to have missed a lot about ISA… I wonder is I’m alone in this?