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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Software and Hardware Requirements

256 RAM

2 GB Free space on NTFS drive

Minimum 300 MHZ or higher processor

200 MB of available space of installation

ISA Server Service Pack 1

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Installing ISA Server on Windows 2000 Server

1. Make sure that Windows 2000 Server is installed on the machine where you want to install ISA Server.

2. Put your ISA server 2000 CD in the CD-ROM

3. Click on the Install ISA server link.

4. An ISA 2000 server dialog box will appear that will inform you to install service pack 1

5. Click continue on the welcome page.

6. On the next screen enter the CD-Key where the CD-Key box appears.

7. Next click I agree on the Server’s license agreement page.

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Installing ISA Server on Windows 2000 Server

8. Click the full installation button.

9. On the next page, select the integrated mode option. Integrated mode has both the features of web proxy and firewall mode.

10. On the next (web cache page), select the NTFS drive and click the set button.

11. Press Ok.

12. On the local address table page, click the construct table button and remove this check box “Add the following private ranges”.

13. Put a check mark “Add address ranges based on the Windows 2000 Routing Table checkbox”.

14. Click ok on the local address table box.

15. Next click ok on the dialog boxes.

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How to Install Server Pack 1

You can download the ISA server service pack 1 from the following path

http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/downloads/sp1.asp

1. Double click on the file isasp1.exe after copying the setup files on the ISA server machine.

2. Type in the path for the temporary files.

3. Click I agree on the EULA dialog box.

4. Click Ok to “Microsoft ISA Server 2000 Update Setup” and the computer will be restarted automatically.

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Hi,
All are very nice points.Thanks for your wonderful information.