It is quite good. It can function as a transparent proxy, so you don't need to setup your clients, which is nice. I used that to make sure everyone's downloads get screened via GFI's webmon antivirus. I also use a web-chaining rule to forward to a privoxy server for ad filtering (I'm sure there are ways to do this with an ISA plugin) which is great because now I'm not downloading flash take-overs that cause some of the older workstations to slow to a crawl.
I put the ad filter in front of ISA because I wanted to kill that crap before ISA wasted disk space by caching it. I'd like to get prefetching added in there somewhere as well, but I haven't found a good way to implement that. Every so often, I use it via a VPN link from a remote office when I need to figure out if there's a problem with my network, the ISP, the remote server, etc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Harrison Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: RE: ISA as a proxy Wow; that's a loaded question if ever there was one. <VBG> If you ask me (an avowed ISA aficionado), ISA 2006 simply rocks. No vulnerabilities, never been compromised; great IPv4 firewall and web proxy. What are your specific goals for deploying a proxy? Jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: ISA as a proxy hi i was wandering if anyone has any experiance with ISA 2006 functioning as a proxy and what are the conclusions thanks
