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ISA Server 2004
View All CoursesThis course covers how to setup and manage ISA Server 2004 Firewall. A working knowledge of how to configure a network and network security is a plus, but not required. This course is designed to provide hands-on training for beginners and for working IT professionals.
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- Introduction
- Instructor Intorduction
- Why is ISA Important?
- Videos Introduction
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- Introduction
- Our Scenario
- Network Diagram
- Hardware Requirements
- Installing ISA Network Interfaces
- Installing Windows Active Directory (AD) on the DC Server
- Joining the Domain
- Configuring the DNS Server to Use a Forwarder
- Disabling Windows Firewall on All Adaptors
- Creating Our Installation CD
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What is a Firewall?
- Why Do I Need a Firewall?
- What Are the Different Types of Firewalls?
- IP, NAT, Protocols and Ports
- Security Policies
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Problems You Will Encounter When Using a Firewall
- Benefits to Using a Firewall
- What ISA Does and What It Doesn't Do
- How Many Firewalls Do I Need, What Kind, and Where Do I Put Them?
- Choosing the Right Firewall
- Firewall Demonstration - Cisco and Linksys
- Implementing a New Firewall
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Scenario
- Basics of Client-Side Firewalls
- Pro's and Con's of Client-Side Firewalls
- Application-Based vs. Port-Based
- NAC vs. NAP
- Windows Built-in Firewall
- Configuring Windwos Firewall
- ZoneAlarm
- ZoneAlarm Installation and Configuration
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Scenario
- ISA Server Installation Planning Questions
- ISA Server Best Practices
- Network Diagram
- Configuring Our Network Interfaces
- Installing and Configuring Our ISA Server 2004
- In Conclusion
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- Introduction
- Introduction to ISA Server Concepts
- Overview of ISA Features
- Initial Configuration of ISA Server
- Management of ISA Server
- Importance of Windows AD
- Remote Management of ISA
- ISA Server Concepts
- Hardening the Default ISA Server Install
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Scenario
- Connecting to the Internet
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Scenario
- Introduction to Firewall Policies
- Introduction to System Policies
- Access Rule Elements
- Workings of ISA Communications
- Configuring Access Policies and Rules
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Scenario
- What is NAT?
- ISA's SecureNAT
- Good and Bad of SecureNAT
- Configuring SecureNAT
- Disabling SecureNAT
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Scenario
- Client Access Methods
- Configuring Client Access Methods
- Testing Our New Settings
- Creating a Test Windows AD User and Logging In
- Our Scenario
- Firewall Client Installtion
- Configuring Firewall Client
- Our Scenario
- Automatic Discovery
- Automatic Provisioning
- Configuring Automatic Discovery and Provisioning
- Using GPO to Rollout the Firewall Client and Verify
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Scneario
- Introduction to Stateful Packet Inspection
- Introduction to Application Layer Filtering
- What are Application Filters?
- What are Web Filters?
- Configuring Application Layer Filtering
- Using SPI for Intrusion Detection & Prevention
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Scenario
- What You Need to Know About Web Caching
- Configuring Web Caching and Download Jobs
- Creating a Rule to Not Cache www.google.com
- Create a Download Job to Perform a Scheduled Download
- Configure Monitoring of Web Caching and Test It
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Scenario
- Introduction to Publishing
- Publishing Applications
- Split DNS
- Configuring Application Publishing
- Create a DMZ Network Within ISA
- Publish an Exchange Email Server
- Publish a Web Server
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Scenario
- Introduction to VPN's
- Types and Benefits of VPN's
- Authentication Methods
- Authentication Servers & Address Assignment
- Networks
- VPN Quarantine
- Network Diagram
- Configuring ISA as a PPTP VPN Server
- Test Connecting to the Internal Network
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Scenario
- Introduction to Site-To-Site VPNs
- Selecting a Tunneling Protocol
- Remote Site Networks
- Rules for Site-To-Site VPN Tunnels
- Network Diagram
- Configuring a Site-To-Site VPN
- Configuring a Remote Site VPN Gateway
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Our Scenario
- Important Products for ISA
- GFI Web Monitor for ISA
- SurfControl Web Filter
- Akonix for ISA Server
- Panda Anti-Virus for ISA
- Microsoft's Free Tools for ISA Server
- Community Forums for ISA Server
- Configuring GFI WebMon
- Configuring MS CacheDir
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Benefits of ISA Enterprise Edition
- Network Load Balancing (NLB)
- Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM)
- Installing ISA Enterprise Edition
- Configuring ISA Arrays & Cache Array Routing Protocol (CARP)
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Monitoring, Logging, Reporting, and Troubleshooting ISA
- Alerting
- Customizing HTTP Error Pages
- Our Scenario
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
Instructor
David Davis
David has been in the IT industry for over 18 years. He has served as a server/network admin, IT manager, and independent contractor. Today, David is a full-time instructor for TrainSignal.com where he has created over 20 different IT training courses.
Additionally, he has written hundreds of IT articles on the Internet, written for Virtualization Review magazine, served as a judge at VMware product competitions, and spoke on virtualization at conferences in the USA, Canada, and Europe. David's "real-world" experience combined with his diversity of skills (Virtualization, Windows Server, and Cisco Networking) gives you a powerful learning resource that can't be matched.
