ISA includes MSDE. You cannot connect to the ISA instance from off-box - by design. ------------------------------------------------------- Jim Harrison MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison/ http://isatools.org Read the help / books / articles! ------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: William Holmes [mailto:wtholmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:13 To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] ISA Server Logging http://www.ISAserver.org Hello, When using MSDE database logging on ISA server: Is there actually a local MSDE SQL server running on the ISA Server or is the ISA server simply writing the data to the MDF/LDF files all on its own. What I am curious about is accessing the MSDE databases via an ODBC connection which is possible to do through MSDE. Thanks Bill ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx All mail to and from this domain is GFI-scanned.