Technology Services - ISA 2006

Convergent Computing has been involved in the beta development, testing, and support for the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) server product since the first beta of the ISA/2000 back in the late 1990's. While ISA/2000 as a product failed to meet all of the expectations that organizations had for a secured firewall product, ISA/2006 has completely turned perceptions around as ISA/2006 provides security far beyond perimeter security functionality (such as reverse proxy for Outlook Web Access, secured site-to-site VPN, Active Directory integrated security, and L2TP-VPN security to Windows).

CCO's senior consultant, Michael Noel, took his expertise one step further and wrote a best selling book on the technology. The book, "ISA Server 2006 Unleashed" is another Sams/Que Publishing book written by CCO's consultants. This book covers best practices, tips, and lessons learned in architecting and implementing ISA/2006 in an enterprise environment.

The following describes the ISA Server 2004 Unleashed book:

Title: "ISA Server 2006 Unleashed"

Abstract: Best selling author, and CCO consultant, Michael Noel released a new edition of the ISA Server Unleashed title supporting the ISA Server 2006 product. This book will cover all of the same topics from the ISA 2004 title such as firewall, site to site VPN, and secured remote access configuration and best practices. But will also includes content specific to ISA 2006 such as Web Publishing Load Balancing, BITS Caching, Web SSO, SmartCard and OTP Support, LDAP Authentication Support, and DiffServ Bandwidth Utilization.

Title: "ISA Server 2004 Unleashed"

Abstract: Best selling author, and CCO consultant, Michael Noel has agreed to write the next "Unleashed" series book on the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server product. ISA 2004 provides firewall, site to site VPN, and secured remote access functionality. This will covers installation, configuration, performance optimization, migration from previous versions of the ISA product, and ongoing maintenance and management practices and techniques.