Publishing Web Server on ISA 2004

A couple of weeks ago I was working at a customer site who wanted to publish their POP3 and SMTP server as well as their web server. Publishing the SMTP and POP3 server was as simple as going through the mail server publishing wizard but it took me two days to find out out why the web publishing wizard didn't work as expected! It was nothing wrong with the the rules created by the wizard, Something was grabbing the traffic on port 80 so that the traffic couldn't reach the destined web server and this was the local IIS on ISA 2004 server. Stopping the "Default Web Server" and restarting IIS on the ISA 2004 server fixed the issue.

Exchange 2003 Form Based Authentication?

To activate Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Form Based Authentication, IIS should be configured for Secured Communication (SSL), a Certificate must be created and after all Form Based Authentication should be enabled from Exchange System Manager.

NAV Corporate and ISA 2004 On The Same Server

For Scenarios that Microsoft ISA 2004 and Norton antivirus Corporate Edition are located on the same server installing NAV Clients and Communication between NAV Clients and Server becomes an issue. If installing NAV Clients will be done locally from workstations creating a UDP protocol for sending port number 38293 and 1024-4999 and creating an Access Rule for this new protocol to allow traffic from Local Host to Internal network and vice versa makes it work (Note: Two Separate Access Rules Must Be Created). An Access rule for NetBIOS traffic from Internal Network to Local Host must also be created.
Although by this approach the client installation obstacle is overcome but NAV clients can not communicate with NAV Server and Outbound TCP port 2967 and 1024-4999 should also be opened in both directions.

Lock Down Exchange Server in 10 Steps

Exchange Server: Lock it down in 10 steps

Backup Sharpreader Subscriptions

Backing up Sharpreader subscriptions and settings is easily done by copying the content of the following location:

drive:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\SharpReader

The subscriptions are all in a file named "subscriptions.xml"