At the IT Pro Conference in New Orleans I presented briefly, as part of a panel, some things to think about when making the firewall decision for an SBS network. Don’t assume that the name brands are necessarily the best choice. We’ve got to seriously shop. Never before has this business...
Last week I gave my 5w/50 presentation on Configuring ISA for Common SMB Scenarios. During the webcast I mentioned that I would post resources to the skydrive. I’ve sent those into the powers that be, but I hear that he’s basking in the sunshine in Hawaii. So I thought I’d post them...
I’ll be giving a technical demonstration on how to configure ISA for a variety of configuration scenario’s common to small business as part of the 5W/50 series. The emphasis will be on enhancing employee productivity. I’m not much of a power point user so this will be a hands-on how...
What you’ll need: A working VMS website. That is you need to be able to log into it while inside the network and have it function properly. You will know it is working when you see a login prompt on the page and can login successfully. A split DNS. It needs to be capable of resolving [...]
I'm sure that most people here are aware that there are circles in the IT community where SBS is a punchline. One of the most common assertations is that ISA on SBS is a security compromise. So I figured it was time to address this head on. Is ISA on SBS a security compromise? Completely - because the...
Last week, we were installing SBS SP1 for one of our SBS Premium customers. Naturally, we upgraded their ISA 2000 to ISA 2004, which went very smoothly. The only problem was that after the upgrade to ISA 2004 was complete, none of their workstations could pull an IP via DHCP. We verified that the DHCP...
Ok, so Charlie (Anthe - Release Manager for the next version of SBS) isn't a horse, but you get the idea . . . . SBS SP1 will include: Windows 2003 SP1 Exchange 2003 SP1 MSDE SP4 SQL Server SP4 (Premium) ISA 2004 (Premium) Windows Sharepoint Services SP1 And on the desktop side: Windows XP SP2 ActiveSync...
Ok - for anyone who has hung around microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000 and microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs, you probably realize that I'm a really big ISA fan. While I'm not necessarily against hardware firewalls, I'm constantly irked by the people who automatically discount ISA because it...