Introduction to ISA Server

ISA or Internet security and accelerator server is a proxy server by Microsoft and it is a part of .Net products. ISA server provides the basic services of Enterprise, Firewall and Cache server. ISA server is designed to work with Windows 2000 and the later editions of Windows. ISA server comes in two editions standard edition and Enterprise edition. Standard edition is a standalone edition that supports four processors.
Enterprise editions are for large scale networks and they support more than four processors. Firewall, policy based administration, virtual private network support, Dynamic IP filtering, Intrusion detection system, web cache, gatekeeper and the client deployment are the basic components of the ISA server

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A.Rajesh Khanna