the error from isa mgmt just said the service couldnt start the event log gave me a 11004 i think. i had to uninstall and reinstall ISA again last night. ________________________________ From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Thor (Hammer of God) Sent: Sat 10/28/2006 3:09 PM To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [isalist] Re: Every time i try to configure sql logging... What was the error? If lockdown is enabled, and the firewall service can't log, it will shut down... Let me know what error you're getting and we can go from there... t On 10/27/06 8:10 PM, "Michael Ross" <mross@xxxxxxxxxxx> spoketh to all: ok i finally got the system setup the way i wanted it (isa 2004), minus the sql logging. I wanted to change it from msde to sql 2005, sql 2005 is on a seperate server. i did a backup of the ISA server config from the ISA manager (right click the isa server, and choose backup). i created the db's, ran the scripts, followed the help file to the letter. i tried to configure ISA to log to the SQL server, and it didnt work.. ISA gave me an error. so, I restored my ISA box from the backup file, and now the Firewall service wont start. Event ID11004, even after a reboot im about to totally give up on getting it to log to SQL.. The last time this happened, I had to uninstall ISA, reinstall it, patch it, then do my restore. i know im an idiot.. but what in the world am i doing wrong?