ISA Server 2006 Service Pack 1 Features

ISA Server 2006 Service Pack 1 Features

Introduction

Microsoft® Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Service Pack (SP) 1 will be available for your installation pleasure this summer!

This Service Pack introduces new features and improved functionality for ISA Server 2006 Enterprise and Standard Editions. The new features focus primarily on enhanced troubleshooting mechanisms designed to help you identify and resolve ISA Server configuration issues. Also included in this package are the updates we’ve promised for so long, such as SAN certificate support.

Service Pack 1 new and improved features

ISA Server 2006 SP1 includes the following new features:

· Configuration Change Tracking — logs all configuration changes applied to ISA Server configuration to help you backtrack through your change history.

· Web Publishing Rule Test Button — helps you verify that the rule configuration agrees with what is set at the published web server and provides specific suggestions when they disagree.

· Traffic Simulator — simulates network traffic as it would be seen by the ISA rules engine and gives you specific information about traffic processing along the way.

· Diagnostic Logging Query — an extension to the Diagnostic Logging feature provided in the Supportability Pack, this feature makes it much easier to see only the data that is relevant to the current troubleshooting effort.

ISA Server 2006 SP1 also includes such feature improvements as:

· Support for Network Load Balancing (NLB) multicast and multicast with IGMP operations (KB 938550)

· Support for certificates with multiple Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries in published web servers

· Kerberos Constrained Delegation (KCD) authentication supports trusted-domain user accounts (KB 942637 )

For additional feature improvements, see "Improvements to existing features" later in this document.

More info at the source

Source: ISA Server Product Team Blog : ISA Server 2006 Service Pack 1 Features

Finally, after waiting over 2 years, Citrix finally releases their Branch Office Appliance.  Please let us know if anybody actually sees one.  We'd love to hear your feedback.

New Citrix Branch Repeater Uses ISA Server

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 2:43:00 PM | David Burt

Citrix has announced the availability of the new Citrix Branch Repeater, an "all-in-one" device for delivering applications to branch offices.   The Citrix Branch Repeater was developed jointly with Microsoft, and  uses Microsoft ISA Server 2006 Web caching to accelerate delivery of web content to the branch.  ISA Server 2006  helps branch office users easily and securely access the Internet or corporate-based resources. More on ISA's use in the new Citrix Branch Repeater on  Thomas Shinder's ISAServer.org blog here.

Internet Security & Acceleration (ISA) Server,  first launched in 1997 as the Microsoft Proxy Server, is a very versatile product with a great many uses, including as a VPN, a Firewall, a URL filtering proxy, and with Citrix, a Web caching device.   In addition to Citrix, ISA has a rich partner ecosystem that includes providers of URL filters, Anti-Virus, Reporting, User Authentication, and more on our partner page here.

Forefront Team Blog

Someone I worked with when I was consulting with Citrix went over to Desktone so I've been watching them.   They came out of stealth mode last month.  Seems that they are really moving along... First they signed up Verizon then they partnered up with HP.  I'm going to keep my eye on them ... Don

Desktone Announces Support for Citrix XenServer

Citrix Synergy

CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Desktone, Inc., provider of the first solution that enables virtual desktops as a service (DaaS), today announced at Citrix Synergy™ that the Desktone Virtual-D Platform will support Citrix XenServer™.

Source: Desktone Announces Support for Citrix XenServer

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