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Configuring ISA Server 2000

The complete guide to implementing ISA Server in the Enterprise

Because security and network performance - the two pronged purpose of ISA Server - are so important in todays interconnected world, ISA Server plays a vital role in your overall network design. Configuring ISA Server 2000 will plan an equally vital role in helping you understand Microsoft's much-anticipated Web-caching, filtering, and connection-sharing software package, Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 - or more simply, ISA Server.

• Learn ISA Server's features Master the security, acceleration, and Internet connection sharing features of ISA Server.
• Understand ISA's architecture Get an overview of ISA Server's complex architecture and how the program components work at various layers of the network communications models.
• Select proper authentication methods Read about ISA's defferent authentication options, depending on the type of client.
• Administer ISA with confidence Master the unknown and undocumented components and features of ISA
• Understand ISA's Firewall features Now you'll understand multiplayer filtering, stateful inspection, intrusion detection, secure VPN, streaming media splitting, and more!
• Recognize intrusion attcks Set up ISA Firewall to detect all-ports scan, IP half scans, ping of deaths, land attacks, UDP bombs and other attacks.
• Use ISA as a web caching server Read about smart and scheduled caching, distributed caching, and hierarchical caching options
• Save Time Get complete coverage of wizards that guide you through common setup and management tasks.

Configuring Exchange Server 2000 is an intermediate to advanced book for both administrators and developers who are actively using Exchange 4.0/5.0/5.5/2000 products. The authors are IT professionals that are actively implementing Exchange and Windows 2000.

Each chapter communicates the essential theory and methodology required. First this book reviews the essentials of Active Directory and Security that you must understand to implement Exchange 2000. Basic methodology and the improvements in administering Exchange 2000 are covered. The Client chapter covers setting up VPNs, architecting physical local and remote access for these clients. Outlook, OWA, POP3, LDAP and LDAP clients are detailed on how you will implement them today. You'll find a great advanced section on how to create an Outlook install package and create a group policy to install it.

You can depend on the Deploying Exchange 2000 chapter to help you successfully move to Exchange 2000 - whether a new install or a migration. Step by step scenarios will assist you. Next, how to protect your Exchange server from hackers, attacks, and spamming contains insight into which components of Exchange are vulnerable.

Configuring Exchange Server 2000 is one of the first books to detail Conference Server, Instant Messaging and Chat. It will get you started on planning, installing, configuring, and even troubleshooting. What book would be complete with Backup/Restore, ASP, and Clustering? Well plenty of them, but not this book. The introduction of the multiple stores will require you to re-think your configuration and possibly backup strategy. Make sure you read this chapter to understand how to restore individual stores.

The chapter on designing, installing, and configuring Exchange Server 2000 for ASP's contains details and tips that are first in an Exchange 2000 book. Next, Clustering Exchange 2000 is a treat. Configuring Exchange Server 2000 details step by step how to install Windows 2000 clustering and then Exchange Server 2000 clustering.

Finally, the Troubleshooting chapter contains the basic steps to keep and get your Exchange Server up. Here architecture is explained in tandem with troubleshooting steps to make sure you are troubleshooting the correct components. Remember, it is just as important to know what is NOT causing the problem, as is what is.

Troubleshooting Windows 2000 TCP/IP

TCP/IP is a set of protocols developed to allow computers to share resources across a network. It's not enough for network managers to understand how TCP/IP is "supposed" to work - they must know how to accurately detect and quickly correct problems as they occur. This book shows readers how to use products such as distributed sniffers, field metering tools, and protocol analyzers to discover what is going on (and going wrong) in a live Windows 2000 TCP/IP network. They'll learn how to monitor a Windows 2000 network and identify and correct protocol errors, DNS route problems, application faults, and slow response times. Beginning with an overview of the technology and concluding with a "fast-track" summary, Troubleshooting Windows 2000 TCP/IP teaches skills through easy-to-read chapters written by subject matter experts.