[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] A new year.... a new firewall - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Thu, Dec 23 2004 19:02 bradley

A new year.... a new firewall

Just around the corner, we're getting ready for ISA 2004 on our SBS boxes, and in January, there's a whole week of ISA 2004 webcasts to whet our appetite.

ISA Server 2004: Maximize Application Security and Performance:
http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/isaserversecurity.mspx

Janury 17 through the 21st get ready for deploying info, administering, detailed info, the whole works from the ISA 2004 team.  Then there are also virtual labs you can play around with.

TechNet Virtual Lab: ISA Server:
You can even order a trial version of the software to play with on a separate server or a Virtual server.

Remember that as part of SBS 2003 sp1, Premium customers will get ISA 2004, but if you are a SBS VAR/VAP, you may want to start looking at this now.

 

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# re: A new year.... a new firewall

Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:45 PM by bradley

And not a moment too soon. I've held off installing ISA2k4 or any of the other updates piecemeal on my SBS, but only because I wanted a "clean" update via the new SP1. I've been using ISA2k4 on another network for months, and I love it. Though the learning curve is a bit steep -- it does things a lot different as compared to ISA2k.

SBSers should definitely take advantage of the web casts and the virtual lab. There are a LOT of differences in ISA2k4 and you'll want to take advantage of this opportunity to get ahead of the curve. I've already signed up for 3 sessions that week.