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Your thoughts on ISA 2004 - 7.Feb.2004 1:26:00 AM

Ricci

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From: Ware, Herts, England
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Personally I am *very* impressed with it.

The real time log viewing is a life saver.

Protocol definitions that allow you to enter multiple connections rather than having to create numerous definitions.

and even the memory usage has dropped significantly.

I have been testing it with every firewall test site I can find, nothing has got through, but everything has carried on working perfectly.

Even managed to download a content update for an xbox live game :-)

I am now planning on a complete home network redesign as things seem to be much easier to setup now.. expect lots of questions :-)

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RE: Your thoughts on ISA 2004 - 8.Feb.2004 3:07:00 PM

penrose.l@2college.nl

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Hi ,

Yup I agree totally , this is the second product of microsoft that works perfectly out-of-the-box. ( Windows 2003 server was great too ). I must agree , Windows 2000 is the best operating system , but only with a lot of service packs etc.
Anyway : the best thing about ISA 2004 is that you can now have NETWORK rules ( internal network 1 ROUTES to internal network 2 and internal 2 NATS to external ).
In short : it's become a real firewall instead of a tuned up proxy with ipsec [Smile]

1 major shortcoming is the lack of bandwidth control. They must have had reasons not to implement it.. maybe it's slowing down the machine too much.. anyway I would really like to see it !

Kind regards,
Lex P.

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RE: Your thoughts on ISA 2004 - 8.Feb.2004 4:21:00 PM

Beboen

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Joined: 16.Nov.2003
From: Belgium
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Hi,

I like ISA2K4 a lot! I'm glad to be rid of protocol rules and packet filters and the introduction of firewall policies. I also like NAT traversal for IPSec which I couldn't manage in ISA2K.

Of course it's still in beta and I notice it:
1. It installed MSDE to take care of all the logs, however, it didn't configure a database, so there's just that MSDE thingy installed and that's it.
2. I regularly have problems with MMC now. Hmmm, I need to investigate still how that comes.
3. When I wanted to install ISA2K4 first, I had an error 1719. I've been looking on the MS site but everything was ok on my box according to them. So I quickly reinstalled W2K3 and problem was fixed. [Roll Eyes]

Hmm, hope Tom or any MS guy reads this because there's still something strange: why do you have to control the link translation filter through configuration/general and not through configuration/add-ins/web filters?!?

Anyway, ISA -and definetely ISA2K4- will remain my premier firewall! Great job MS guys!

Beboen

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RE: Your thoughts on ISA 2004 - 10.Feb.2004 1:58:00 PM

christera

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Well Isa server 2004 is a big improvment compered with ISA 2000.
Now it's looks like and feels like a real firewall insted of a tuned up proxy server.
but there is some things left to improved i know it's still a beta product so i hope that microsoft will fix these problems.
what i'm talking about is this.
if you are creating a firewall policy and you put several computer in the from list, they are displayed after eachother instead of above eachother (subnets is dispalyed correct). not a big issue but it makes it alot more easy to have a proper overview if you can see all the filters correct.
another thing that is great is the logging function, it will sure make my life a lot more easy, but there is one problem with it. you cant filter trafic from AND to a computer, just to OR from a computer. would like to see a filter function simular to networkmonitor where you can filter with boolean operation.

other wise it seems to be a great product.

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RE: Your thoughts on ISA 2004 - 18.Feb.2004 4:11:00 PM

StarChase

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From: The Netrherlands
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This is the first ISA version i have worked with and i like it. Especially i like the friendly user interface what is improved a lot. I have 1 thing i dont like and thats that in this beta version no option is for bandwith throtting [Frown]

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RE: Your thoughts on ISA 2004 - 19.Feb.2004 12:17:00 AM

tshinder

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Hi StarChase,

I'm hoping to see some good third party bandwidth control apps when ISA 2004 is released.

HTH,
Tom

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RE: Your thoughts on ISA 2004 - 24.Feb.2004 6:17:00 PM

ciscore

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When is ISA 2004 planned to be released? We are going to be purchasing ISA Server very soon and I'm wondering if we should wait for 2004.

nevermind....found my answer

[ February 24, 2004, 06:27 PM: Message edited by: ciscore ]

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