Archive for the ‘ISA/TMG’ category

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995 The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request

February 8, 2009

Like any normal day in the office, at some point I’ll get blamed for something not working. More specifically, one of the security systems I manage gets blamed, but I cop the flack for it. Moaning at an inanimate firewall doesn’t elicit the sheer pleasure of ranting a human being, or me, it appears. Anyway, [...]

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ISA or TMG on a Virtual server

September 14, 2008

Was browsering through Jeffa’s blog when I found his NAP link posted to another Ms web site call edge.technet.com I had a bit of a browse and found this stand out piece on putting ISA or TMG on a Virtual host and how to secure it. Jim Harrison is a very active Ms guy in [...]

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Updating ISA 2004 SP0 to SP3

September 14, 2008

Had the joy of getting a bunch of old ISA servers to SP3. Seems a pretty simple task until I looked in to it a bit closer. The server had over 90 rules and a lot of custom tweaks made with registry hacks. Anyhow, did my normal roll back tricks of backups, cloning and breaking [...]

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Stirling and ISA 2008 or TMG

May 5, 2008

Downloaded the public beta and popped it on to a test 2008 domain a few weeks ago. So far, it’s making me look forward to Forefront v2 and what ISA 2008 or Threat Management Gateway as it’s been called, offers.

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Putting together the pieces

January 20, 2008

Got stuck with a bunch of remote support work to do over the weekend, which gave me the time to read through some Ms papers and get the lab working. This is it so far. One happy Domain fully patched with Forefront happily sitting on all the machines and MOM agents all reporting in the [...]