[isapros] Re: Configuring Direct Access in ISA 2004 SP2

  • From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:49:25 -0500

Hi Stefaan,

OK, got it. I wonder if the hotfix package might morph into ISA 2004
SP3?

Tom

Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefaan Pouseele
> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 11:39 AM
> To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isapros] Re: Configuring Direct Access in ISA 2004 SP2
> 
> Hi Tom, 
> 
> Jim had responded in the MVP mailing list. That hotfix 
> package does solve
> the Direct Access issue but the KB for this specific issue is 
> still under
> review. 
> 
> If you reread KB 920716 in the context that it might solve 
> multiple problems
> then that KB make sense. I expect that soon multiple KB's 
> will be referenced
> under the heading "Issues that are fixed in the hotfix 
> package" such as
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;920356 ;-)
> 
> Greetings,
> Stefaan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Thomas W Shinder
> Sent: zaterdag 8 juli 2006 18:21
> To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isapros] Re: Configuring Direct Access in ISA 2004 SP2
> 
> Hi Stefaan,
> 
> That's got to be the whackieist KB article I've ever seen for a hotfix
> package. The only issue it fixes is with SSL tunneling on 
> different ports,
> and I didn't even know there was an issue with that! :)
> 
> I entered a tasteful comment on the page so maybe someone will read it
> someday.
> 
> Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
> Site: www.isaserver.org
> Blog: http://blogs.isaserver.org/shinder/
> Book: http://tinyurl.com/3xqb7
> MVP -- ISA Firewalls
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefaan Pouseele
> > Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 7:27 AM
> > To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [isapros] Configuring Direct Access in ISA 2004 SP2
> > 
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> > we all know that ISA Server 2004 SP2 makes some changes to the way 
> > that destinations specified for direct access are handled. What
> > *exactly* has
> > changed is described in
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;903746. 
> > 
> > In February 2006, I made a PSS call to fix that issue and 
> received a 
> > private fix. The 'trick' was a modified wpad.dat script that allows 
> > the use of URL's to specify direct access (e.g. 
> '*.microsoft.com/*') 
> > without breaking the changes introduced in SP2 for the 
> branch office 
> > scenario's.
> > Unfortunately,
> > the private fix was broken by
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=916106. 
> > 
> > According to last post (Sunday, June 18, 2006 3:56 AM) at 
> > https://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2006/02/27/420653.as
> > px there is a
> > fix for the Direct Access issue, which you can get by 
> calling Product 
> > Support and requesting the fix for KB 920716. On July 5, 
> 2006 the KB 
> > was released with the title "Description of the ISA Server 
> 2004 hotfix 
> > package:
> > June 6, 2006"
> > (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;92071
> > 6). However, I
> > can't find any reference to the Direct Access issue! 
> > 
> > Has any body some more info about it? 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Stefaan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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