RE: ISA as a proxy

It is quite good.

It can function as a transparent proxy, so you don't need to setup your
clients, which is nice. I used that to make sure everyone's downloads get
screened via GFI's webmon antivirus. I also use a web-chaining rule to
forward to a privoxy server for ad filtering (I'm sure there are ways to do
this with an ISA plugin) which is great because now I'm not downloading
flash take-overs that cause some of the older workstations to slow to a
crawl.

I put the ad filter in front of ISA because I wanted to kill that crap
before ISA wasted disk space by caching it. I'd like to get prefetching
added in there somewhere as well, but I haven't found a good way to
implement that.

Every so often, I use it via a VPN link from a remote office when I need to
figure out if there's a problem with my network, the ISP, the remote server,
etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jim Harrison
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:47 PM
To: raz@xxxxxxxxxxxx; focus-ms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: ISA as a proxy

Wow; that's a loaded question if ever there was one. <VBG>

If you ask me (an avowed ISA aficionado), ISA 2006 simply rocks.
No vulnerabilities, never been compromised; great IPv4 firewall and web
proxy.
What are your specific goals for deploying a proxy?

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of raz@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:19 PM
To: focus-ms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: ISA as a proxy

hi
i was wandering if anyone has any experiance with ISA 2006 functioning as a
proxy and what are the conclusions

thanks

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