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ISA 2004 Web Publishing HTTP Filter stops default website page URL redirection

Quick questions: In a firewall, if you're presented with a checkbox asking if you want to block requests with ambigious extensions, what would you do? I'm guessing the answer from 99% of you would be "of course, I want to be as secure as Read More
posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:35 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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ISA 2006 Beta Available

http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/2006/default.mspx is worth checking out - you can download the beta of ISA Server 2006. I can't download it myself as I'm off-site, but will be sure to install it at home in the next couple of weeks.. Read More
posted Friday, March 03, 2006 4:42 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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ISA Server 2004 SP2 Availability

You may have spotted I haven't posted for a few days, but I've been off ill with the 'flu. Hence, my excuse for not having spotted the availability of ISA Server 2004 SP2 last week. It's also worth mentioning Maartens excellent blogcast on the features. Read More
posted Monday, February 06, 2006 5:18 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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IT Forum Highlights in Reading

For those of you who were unable to attend IT Forum 2005 in November, a quick reminder that there are two full-day events re-running some of the most popular content. This will be held on the Microsoft Campus in Reading. The registration links Read More
posted Friday, January 27, 2006 2:58 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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RPC/HTTP and OWA through ISA Followup

If you've been watching the series on RPC/HTTP I recorded a little while back, you'll know that I did a "trick" to allow both OWA and RPC/HTTP connectivity through a single external IP Address under ISA Server 2004. There was an annoying flaw which although Read More
posted Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:50 PM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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ISA Server 2004 Port Scan alerts

I've been running ISA Server at home for a number of years now - first with ISA 2000, and more recently ISA Server 2004 SP1. I've realised over time that there are many false alerts of port scans, and know that most times, they are false. However, there's Read More
posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:17 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Part 25: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Integrated Auth

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. The final part to the RPC/HTTPS series shows you how to alter the configuration we have such that Outlook 2003 can move seamlessly between external and internal connectivity through the Read More
posted Friday, December 16, 2005 8:45 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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Part 24: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - RPC Publishing

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. In the last part, forms based authentication for Outlook Web Access was back running again, bouncing through the localhost listener. In this part, we put RPC/HTTP back into place. We create Read More
posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:48 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Part 23: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - OWA back to HTTPS

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. We now move Outlook Web Access back to HTTPS, and we correct a naming error on the Network Listener "FBA LocalHost 443" in the last part (it's actually listening and remains listening on port Read More
posted Thursday, November 24, 2005 1:51 PM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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Part 22: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Bounce OWA through Localhost

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. To make the next steps clearer, here's a picture of what we're trying to achieve in combining Forms Based Authentication with RPC/HTTP, and the routes through which traffic will flow. Hopefully Read More
posted Friday, November 11, 2005 11:29 AM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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Part 21: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Outlook OK, OWA needs some work

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. With our new rule in place on the ISA Server, this sixth part of configuring TPC over HTTP for Outlook 2003 first takes a quick look at the effects on Outlook Web Access - we now Read More
posted Monday, November 07, 2005 10:10 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Part 20: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Start External Config

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. This fifth part of configuring RPC over HTTP for Outlook 2003 changes direction in getting RPC/HTTPS available from the Internet now that it is working internally. We backtrack on our Read More
posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 10:44 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Part 19: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Completing internal config

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. This fourth part of configuring RPC over HTTP for Outlook 2003 moves us on to ensuring that RPC/HTTP works internally from our Outlook 2003 client to our Exchange 2003 Server. First though, Read More
posted Friday, October 28, 2005 1:07 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Part 18: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Initial Setup

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. The third part of configuring RPC over HTTP for Outlook 2003 configures the registry on Exchange 2003 and ensures that IIS is correctly configured on our Exchange server. This is a critical Read More
posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:09 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Securely Publishing Exchange 2003 using ISA Server 2004 - "Zero to Hero"

Thanks for everyone who attended todays security event in London. I hope you got a lot out of the demonstration I ran through today, plus of course the other sessions. It was certainly the scariest and possibly "riskiest" session I've ever considered Read More
posted Monday, October 24, 2005 8:35 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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