isa / highschool

  • From: "Andrew Myers" <amyers@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:13:57 -0500

I've been using ISA Server for about 6 months and am looking at
implementing it in a school system instead of some of my other firewall
solutions. I wanted to get some input on the configuration and design of
this implementation..
 
Basically, it is a school system with 300+ computers (from Apple IIe's
and iMAC's to Win95-2k machines) spread throughout the school building,
and several pc's connected to the network at a remote location through a
dedicated T-1.
 
Will 1 ISA Server be able to service all these? Right now they have a
router that gives everyone access, the ISP upstream has a proxy service
that filters content. But it takes up to 2 weeks to get sites blocked,
so they want to implement some of their own blocking at a local level.
 
The are also wanting a new files server/domain controller on the inside
(active directory) which they would have VPN access through the ISA to,
to access datafiles for a gradebook program from home.
 
Please offer any thoughts or comments.
 
 
Thank You,
Andrew Myers
IT Consultant
 
 <http://www.vpnco.com> 
 

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