ISAserver.org - Monthly Article Update Hi ISAlist, New articles added to ISAserver.org last month: Title: Publishing Servers on a ISA Server 2004 Firewall Public Address DMZ Segment (v1.01) Author: Thomas Shinder Summary: This article describes how to publish a public address DMZ host using Access Rules. This method allows you to use the public addresses your servers have already been using and leverage the full stateful application layer filtering power of the ISA Server 2004 firewall. Unlike traditional packet filter based firewalls (PIX, Netscreen, SonicWall, etc.), the ISA Server 2004 firewall performs stateful filtering and stateful application layer inspection on all communications moving through the firewall. Check out this article for a full discussion and step by step details on how ISA 2004 firewalls accomplish this amazing feat! Link: http://www.ISAserver.org/articles/2004pubdmzservers.html Title: Renaming ISA Server 2000 and ISA Server 2004 Firewalls Author: Thomas Shinder Summary: A common ISA firewall administration task is renaming the firewall. The firewall may need to be renamed because you are moving it from one location to another, or the machine was in a test network and now needs to be moved to a production network, or because the machine is using a name that you want to assign to another machine. Whatever the reason, many ISA firewall administrators want and need to rename the ISA firewall. This article shows you how to rename both ISA 2000 and ISA 2004 firewalls. Link: http://www.ISAserver.org/tutorials/renameisa.html Title: ISA Firewall Fairy Tales - What Hardware Firewall Vendors Don't Want You to Know (v1.02) Author: Thomas Shinder Summary: It?s clear that a number of commentators and industry analysts don?t understand the nature of firewall security in the 21st century and still cling to the marketing material they?ve received in 1997 from the current leaders in the firewall space. The problem is that they do their readers a serious disservice, as the glorified "stateful packet filter" of yesteryear just can?t stack up to a serious application layer aware firewall like ISA Server 2004. This article provides you with the fact ammo you need to beat down your clueless colleagues when they tell you their puppy dog packet filter is better than your ISA firewall. Link: http://www.ISAserver.org/articles/2004tales.html Title: Configuring an Inbound and Outbound SMTP Relay on the ISA Server 2004 Firewall Author: Thomas Shinder Summary: Last week I did a two part article on how to install and configure a secure authenticating and anonymous access SMTP relay on the Internet network that you can use to help secure your Exchange Server. A number of you wrote to me and said that you liked the idea of a secure, authenticating and anonymous inbound access SMTP relay, but that you didn?t have an extra machine to dedicate to the relay process, and would it be possible to install the SMTP relay on the ISA Server 2004 firewall itself. You bet you can! In this article I?ll go over the procedures necessary to install the secure authenticating SMTP relay on the ISA Server 2004 firewall and how to configure the Access Rules to allow the appropriate communications required by the SMTP relay. Link: http://www.ISAserver.org/articles/2004smtprelayinoutisa.html Title: Configuring an Inbound and Outbound SMTP Relay to Complement ISA Server 2004 Firewall Protection for Exchange Servers, Part 2: Step by Step Instructions Including MailEssentials 9 Author: Thomas Shinder Summary: In part 1 of this two part article on how to create an inbound and outbound SMTP relay to protect your Microsoft Exchange Servers we discussed the principles of SMTP relay and how relay can protect your Exchange Servers from the risks of direct contact with Internet SMTP and DNS servers. If you missed that article, you can check it out at http://www.isaserver.org/articles/smtprelayinboundoutbound.html. In this, part 2 of the series, we?ll provide the detailed step by step procedures you need to actually make the theory of secure SMTP relay into reality. First, lets take a look at our simple example network. The figure below provides the details. Link: http://www.ISAserver.org/articles/isa2004smtprelayinoutp2.html Title: Microsoft Releases Service Pack 2 for ISA Server 2000 Author: Stephen Chetcuti Summary: Microsoft has recently announced the release of ISA Server 2000 Service Pack 2, claiming that it provides customers with even higher levels of security, reliability and stability. We'll soon be taking a closer look at these enhancements in forthcoming articles and tutorials. This news item includes further details about Service Pack 2 for ISA Server 2000 and provides related links. Link: http://www.ISAserver.org/news/Service-Pack-2-ISA-Server-2000.html Visit the Subscription Management (http://newsletter.isoftmarketing.com/) section to unsubscribe. ISAserver.org is in no way affiliated with Microsoft Corp. For sponsorship information, contact us at advertising@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Copyright ? ISAserver.org 2004. All rights reserved.