I like Live Writer a lot but it is very hard to install when you are behind Microsoft’s ISA firewall. I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out what ports I needed to open in the firewall so that the Live Writer install program would install. All of my attempts ended with the [...]
Installing Live Writer behind a ISA firewall
January 5th, 2008 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3, Security
Tags: livewriter·isa
WSUS 3.0 and ISA 2004 SP3 Updates
May 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
Windows Server Update Services(WSUS)
I was feeling a little adventurous yesterday and decided to update the Windows Server Update Services(WSUS). This package is a great tool for managing and tracking the updates to windows computers in a small business server environment. There are other products that may do a little better job but you cannot beat [...]
Publishing ISA Reports on your Sharepoint site
April 27th, 2007 · 9 Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
Here’s the problem. You want to look at your firewall reports regularly. You have gone so far as to set up ISA to publish the daily and monthly reports to a directory on the server but getting to yesterday’s report is a real pain in the butt. It would be nice to send the report [...]
Tags: isa·SBS·sharepoint
Cleaning up ISA routes
February 15th, 2007 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
ISA Server detected routes through adapter WAN that do not correlate with the network element to which this adapter belongs. For best practice, the address range of an ISA Server network should match the address ranges routable through the associated network adapter as defined in the routing table. Otherwise valid packets may be dropped as [...]
Microsoft ISA 2004 crashes and burns
February 15th, 2007 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
Yesterday was a miserable day. We lost power for eight hours due to an ice storm and I spent most of the day taking care of business in the barn since our employees were not going to make it in. When I finally got some time to look at my server, it was complaining that [...]
Outlook by the sound : RPC server is unavailable since SP1
February 8th, 2007 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
I finally called Tech Support and we found out that there is a hotfix out related to RPC Issues in ISA 2004, also there is an “SBS Protected Networks Access Rule” . Rt click it and “configure RPC protocol and uncheck the “Enforce strict RPC compliance”. This will allow DCOM to pass.
Source: Outlook by the [...]
Changing over to a 3 leg network layout
September 10th, 2006 · No Comments · SBS2K-SBS2K3
I had been curious about implementing a DMZ for some time but I really did not have a use for one. My previous network layout was a standard edge network with two firewalls, a router/firewall and a ISA firewall. Recently I have been playing with a variety of linux packages who eventually will need constant [...]
