Understanding ISA Object Permissions You can assign permissions for a number of ISA Server objects, such as those listed here: ISA server H.323 gatekeeper ISA Server arrays Enterprise polices Sessions Alerts The ISA Management MMC snap-in is used to assign permissions for ISA Server objects. The ISA Management console is the primary tool used to administer ISA Server. To assign ISA Server object permissions: Click Start, click Programs, click Microsoft ISA Server and then click ISA Management. To connect to the ISA server, click the Internet Security And Acceleration Server Read More

Tuning ISA Server Performance You can optimize ISA Server performance and tune the ISA Server cache. The ISA Server performance settings that you can tune to optimize the performance of the ISA Server computer exist on the Performance tab of the Array Properties dialog box. ISA Server caches objects to RAM and on disk. The default ISA Server configuration caches objects that are below 12,800 bytes in size in RAM. An object that is stored in RAM is retrieved faster by ISA Server than an object which is stored on Read More

Configuring ISA Server Logging ISA Server, by default, creates one log file for the following activities each day: Firewall service activity Web Proxy service activity Packet filtering activity Information is logged in the ISALogs folder in the ISA Server installation folder: FWSEXTDyyyymmdd.log – contains information on packets processed by the ISA Server Firewall service. WEBEXTDyyyymmdd.log – contains information on packets processed by the Web Proxy service. IPPEXTDyyyykmmdd.log – the default is set to log deny packets only. If you want to log information on allowed packets, then you have to Read More

Configuring ISA Server for Web Publishing With ISA Server, you can use the methods below to secure access to an internal Web server: Configure protocol filters and packet filers to allow Web protocols to pass through the firewall to the Web server. Configure Web publishing rules on the firewall There are a number of tasks that you need to perform to allow access to the internal Web server through Web publishing rules: Configure Web site domain resolution: Here, the public Web server address should be registered in DNS with the Read More