Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Standard Edition
ISA Server 2006 is the integrated edge security gateway that helps protect your IT environment from Internet-based threats while providing your users with fast and secure remote access to applications and data.
ISA Server 2006 is a cornerstone of Microsoft’s security product strategy and further proof of our commitment to providing secure, anytime, anywhere access to corporate applications and data. This latest version of the firewall, VPN, and Web cache solution highlights several key advancements, including a comprehensive tool set for publishing Exchange and SharePoint Servers, extensions to Windows Server 2003 R2 for streamlined security and connectivity in corporate branch offices, and a new array of OEM appliance solutions that will greatly simplify deployment across your organization.
ISA is a Firewalling & Security product based on Microsoft Windows primarily designed to securely publish webservers and other server systems, provide Stateful, Application-Layer Firewalling, act as a VPN endpoint, and provide Internet Access for client systems in a Business Networking environment.
ISA 2006 introduces a variety of improvements upon the previous version, ISA 2004, including support for authentication via Secure LDAP, (LDAPS) to multiple LDAPS providers or Active Directory forests, integrated support for Exchange 2007 (also backported to ISA 2004), support for publishing Microsoft SharePoint, Single sign-on, Cross-Array Link Translation, Web Publishing Load Balancing (with cookie-based affinity for Integrated NLBS) as well as variety of improvements to wizards such as a Branch Office VPN Connection Wizard, improved certificate management, and Link translation. ISA Server 2006 is only available in 32 bits. It also does not work on Windows 2008 due to the extensive changes of the IP stack.
Features
Networks: Unlimited
Scale up: Up to 4 CPUs, 2-gigabyte (GB) RAM
Scale out: Single server
Caching: Single server store
Policies: Local
Branch office: Through the manual import and export of policy
Monitoring/alerting: Single-server monitoring console Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) Management Pack
Multiple networks: Templates
System Requirements:
Processor:
733MHz or higher Pentium II-compatible
Operating System:
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1
Hard Disk:
150MB
Memory:
512MB RAM
Others:
One network adapter that is compatible with the computer's operating system, for communication with the Internal network
An additional network adapter for each network connected to the ISA Server computer
One local hard disk partition that is formatted with the NTFS file system
Note:
Do not install ISA Server 2006 Standard Edition on a multi-processor computer with more than four processors
