Internet Security And Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006

• Internet Security And Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 [Licences Only]
  
• Internet Security And Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 [Software Assurance]
  

• SharePoint Server Publishing Wizard - a new wizard publishes multiple Windows SharePoint Services sites simultaneously and provides for automatic link translation
• Integrated support for Exchange 2007 - Support for the Exchange 2007 feature set is built-in to ISA Server 2006
• Branch Office VPN Connectivity Wizard - this wizard automatically configures a site-to-site VPN connection between two separate offices
• Flood Resiliency - protects ISA Server 2006 from being permanently unavailable, compromised or unmanageable during a flooding attack
• Enhanced remediation during attack - Flood Resiliency provides enhanced remediation during attacks through log throttling, control of memory consumption, and control of pending DNS queries
• Single sign on - single sign on allows users to access a group of published websites without being required to authenticate with each Web site
• Support for LDAP authentication - LDAP authentication allows ISA Server to authenticate to Active Directory without being a member of the domain
• Cross-Array Link Translation - This feature allows links in web content containing an internal server name to be translated to the public name even if the web content is published in a different array
• BITS caching - ISA Server 2006 provides the caching mechanism for data received through BITS. Any cache rule that you create can be enabled to cache BITS data
• Web Publishing Load Balancing - ISA Server 2006 will automatically balance the request stream coming from a remote user to an array of published servers
• HTTP compression - HTTP compression reduces file size by using algorithms to eliminate redundant data during transmission of HTTP packets
• Diffserv (Quality of Service) - ISA Server 2006 includes a new packet prioritisation functionality (provided by the Diffserv Web filter), which scans the URL or domain and assigns a packet priority using Diffserv bits.

Secure Remote Access to Internal Microsoft Servers

• Firewall generated forms for forms-based authentication
• Remote access to Terminal Services using SSL
• Enforce Microsoft Exchange RPC connections from full Microsoft Outlook messaging and collaboration MAPI clients
• Outlook Web Access Publishing Wizard
• SharePoint Server Publishing Wizard
• Integrated support for Exchange 2007.

Virtual Private Networking (VPN)

• Branch Office VPN Connectivity Wizard
• Full integration of VPN with the Microsoft Firewall service
• Stateful filtering and inspection for VPN
• SecureNAT client support for VPN clients connected to ISA Server 2006 VPN server
• Stateful filtering and inspection for communications moving through a site-to-site VPN tunnel
• VPN Quarantine
• Publishing VPN servers
• IPSec tunnel mode support for site-to-site VPN links.

Management

• Easy-to-use wizards
• Ease of use management features
• Export and import of configuration data
• Delegated permissions wizard for firewall administrator roles
• Centralised logging and reporting
• Centralised storage of firewall policy (Configuration Storage server)
• Enterprise policy
• Automatic array configuration
• ISA Server 2006 Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) Management Pack
• Certificate Management
• Extensive SDK
• Broad vendor support
• Hardware-based ISA Server appliances
• Propagation of enterprise-wide policy.

Monitoring and Reporting

• Real-time monitoring of log entries
• Built-in log query facility
• Real-time monitoring and filtering of firewall sessions
• Connection verifiers
• Customising ISA Server 2006 reports
• Report publishing
• E-mail notification after report creation
• Customized time for log summary creation
• Log to an MSDE database
• Enhanced SQL Server logging.

Multi-Networking

• Multiple network configuration
• Unique per-network policies
• Route and NAT network relationships
• Network Load Balancing.

Advanced Firewall Protection

• Multi-layer firewall
• Application layer filtering
• HTTP filtering on a per-rule basis
• Block access to all executable content
• Control HTTP file downloads through file extension
• HTTP filtering is applied to all ISA Server 2006 client connections
• Control HTTP access based on "HTTP Signatures"
• Control allowed HTTP methods
• Extensive protocol support
• Support for complex protocols requiring multiple primary connections
• Customisable protocol definitions
• FTP policy
• Granular control over IP options
• Firewall user groups
• Microsoft Hotmail Web-based e-mail access through the firewall
• Network objects
• Firewall Rule wizards
• Firewall rules represent an ordered list
• User-based or group-based access policy
• FTP support
• Port redirection for FTP server publishing rules
• Flood Resiliency
• Enhanced remediation during attack.

Please see supporting documents

Processor - PC with a 733 MHz Pentium III or higher processor.
Operating System - Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32-bit operating system with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 32-bit.
Memory - 512 megabytes (MB) of RAM or more is recommended.
Hard Disk - NTFS-formatted local partition with 150 MB of available hard-disk space; additional space will be required for Web cache content.
Other Devices:

• Network adapter that is compatible with the computer's operating system for communication with the internal network; one additional network adapter, modem, or ISDN adapter for each additional network connected to the ISA Server computer
• One additional network adapter is required for intra-array communications for ISA Server 2006 Enterprise Edition integrated NLB
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
• VGA or higher-resolution monitor
• Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device.