ok lets assume I have no special firewall rules, or ports open for backup exec 10d on my ISA 2004 server what do I need to setup to allow a remote backup exec server to connect and back up my ISA 2004 server? Yes I know i could do an export to an XML file, but in reality i need to get backup exec to connect and back up the server.. especially the dreaded MSDE database. im also trying to get backupexec to backup the MSDE database, so it will shrink the db's and and\or log files.