January 2005 - Posts
Just got the January 2005 edition of Redmond magazine today and was very happy to see that ISA Server 2004 was voted the best software-based firewall solution on the market ahead of Checkpoint Firewall-1 and Symantec's Enterprise firewall!
Just wait for the Enterprise Edition to release!
Jason
So I've initialized the Malicious Software Removal Tool to MSRT, sorry had to do it because I'm not good at spelling malicious :)
Who has used it out there and what are your thoughts? I think the tool is a good start and I really appreciate it being deployable in an enterprise with either SMS or group policy scripts. I don't prefer the requirement to be a local Admin to run the tool, but if you have SMS you can work around that.
I'm interested to see how and if the tool changes in the coming months. If it does, I'll have some feedback to post.
Jason
I am happy to say that Bud Ratliff (fellow ISA MVP) and I are working on the new ISA Server 2004 Administrator's Pocket Consultant book for MS Press. We want this to be a very high quality book with relevant procedures for all you ISA Admins out there. We've got great support from the other ISA MVPs and and ISA team at Microsoft, but if you have good knowledge of ISA Server and would like to be a tech edit on the book, please send me an e-mail (jason@lexmug.com).
Jason
If you haven’t been tuning in to the ISA Server 2004 Webcast week yet, go check it out before it’s all over.
http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/isaserversecurity.mspx
I caught a couple of the webcasts on Monday that were very insightful and the slidedecks would be very useful if you need some ammo for a business case to management to let you get ISA 2004 in the door!
Jason