Product Description
Microsoft’s flagship ISA Server delivers the Internet to your customers!
As the demand for Internet connectivity reaches a fever pitch, system administrators are being challenged to connect more and more systems to th… More >>
Product Description
Microsoft’s flagship ISA Server delivers the Internet to your customers!
As the demand for Internet connectivity reaches a fever pitch, system administrators are being challenged to connect more and more systems to th… More >>
Been waiting for a long time for this one, but it turns out to be worth it. I really liked the background and design info in the first chapters, and how the book takes you all the way from basic security concepts to very specific scenarios on configuring and administering ISA.
Just about everything is covered, and what’s really neat is that things are explained so a beginner can understand, but you’ve also got all these advanced configuration tips and tons of stuff that you definitely won’t find in the Help files. You can tell these guys are writing from hands on experience and it shows!
I know it’s not meant to be a study guide, but I found a lot of answers to my questions here while I was studying for the ISA test. The only complaint I’ve got was the long waiting period for the book to be published. I wish they wouldn’t put a date it’s supposed to be available and then not ever update that.
I also found out about isaserver.org from the book where Tom Shinder gives all sorts of support for ISA questions and that’s a great resource.
Rating: 5 / 5
I purchased this book because we required ISA Server setup in our organization. Our previous firewall was Checkpoint, but management wanted a new MS solution.
Virtually everything I needed to know was within this text. The documentation provided with the product was difficult to understand, but the book explained not only the theory, but the differences between how ISA Server is supposed to work, and how it works in practice. That is precisely the information I required.
The information is accurate and clearly explained. I am not sure what another reviewer meant by problems with quality of information. He said the book did not explain how to publish an ICMP server. The book clearly explains Server Publishing only works for the UDP and TCP protocols.
This is a most excellent book and I highly recommend to ISA Server Admins and others needing to implement ISA Server.
Rating: 5 / 5
Well i think this book explains everything there is to know about ISA server. Configuring an ISA was always pain in the neck though, i gotta admit though before i’ve finished this book, reconfiguring an ISA server took me much longer, now i do it within 2 hours. I like this book, though i think author could make it much shorter, i don’t think some one actually cares where ISA server got from and the history of it’s design, but again that’s only my opinion. It has a DVD with it i think, i never went through it or anything, so i wouldn’t know what’s on it. This book can teach you how to make a proxy, a gateway and or a firewall out of ISA server. (That’s what it’s about though)
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this book because I’ve seen the great work Dr. Shinder has done on the Microsoft Public Newsgroups and at isaserver.org. I was not disappointed! He put in all the fine details about how services work and the step by steps actually explain what each option means and how it works. What I liked most was the “Undocumented Secrets” sections where he explains thngs like how not to assign the Firewall Client via Group Policy or your client machine will be stuck without a log on box for LONG time. I even tested this out to make sure it was true. I’m glad I read this in thebook, or I would have been sunk!
Another thing quite helpful in the book was the coverage of server publishing, especially FTP server publishing. I had no idea how tricky that could be!
If you are fighting with ISA Server like I have been, then you will like this book a lot. Its saved me a lot of hours of frustration.
Rating: 5 / 5
I don’t usually write reviews of technical books that I read, but in this case I felt compelled to do so, because of how good this book really is (and also to counter the wildly inaccurate critique submitted by the reader from London). This is easily one of the best technical/security books I’ve ever read. Reading the book, you get the sense that Dr. Shinder knows more about ISA Server than even the folks at Microsoft who developed it. There was not a single thing that I looked for and did not find. And in most cases, the coverage was more detailied and exhaustive than what I expected. I appreciate it when an author actaully takes the time to research, test, and document very complicated scenarios the way this book does.
Rating: 5 / 5
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