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 [...]
Tags: livewriter·isa
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
