Microsoft ISA Consultants for Colorado
Microsoft Internet Security Acceleration (ISA) Server – Colorado Consulting
MS ISA Server Consultants – Colorado Front Range Consulting
ISA Server Consulting, Support, Troubleshooting
Local and remote ISA Consulting Services are available from the Nation’s #1 Microsoft Consulting Partner, Exiis Corporation
Colorado businesses and organizations located in Colorado or across the nation--Exiis Corporation provides the best-of-breed in network and professional Microsoft ISA consulting services. Our team of professional ISA consulting and support personnel can assist you when you need it most with any of the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers including Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000, and Windows Server NT 4.0. Exiis Corporation has a complete staff of dedicated Microsoft ISA Certified Consulting Professionals who work with Microsoft Products and Technologies on a daily basis, solving the most difficult business and network challenges. Our “Subject-Matter-Experts” (SMEs) concentrate on the product they support exclusively and receive constant updates and training directly from Microsoft. Our extensive experience, depth of knowledge, and close working relation with Microsoft Corporation allows us to deliver top-notch solutions for all your planning, integration, and optimization requirements. Outsourcing with Exiis Corporation provides you with immediate solutions for all your system architecture, configuration, project management, and network documentation. We offer local and remote IT Help Desk assistance, outsourcing services, security assessments, and full service network outsourcing.
OVERVIEW: Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) Consulting
Microsoft ISA Server is a fully functional firewall and web proxy server, with policy-based access rules, Active Directory integration, and reverse Web Proxy services integrated with the Windows Server operating system. ISA’s firewall provides extensive data filtering, access control, and IP traffic routing, all from a single, user-friendly console. ISA allows local web caching of popular web sites, storing them on the local hard drive, which saves valuable bandwidth by not having to fetch external web pages commonly accessed by network users.
The flexibility of ISA Server allows the server to protect the network with or without Active Directory, making ISA an ideal choice for ant network environment. When incorporating with a Microsoft Active Directory structure, Microsoft ISA Server can take advantage of many of the built-in Windows security features and provide additional advanced features such as creating rules based on policy definitions, publishing servers, routing external requests, and VPN services. An extensive network monitoring interface allows administrators to create comprehensive reports regarding their network traffic—a feature not offered by many other firewall products. ISA Server utilizes the built-in security features of Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, and policies to provide complete firewall and network security features.
The advanced flexibility of Microsoft ISA allows you to control bandwidth, VPN connections, and create complex routing rules. Microsoft ISA can be deployed in many ways, allow you to take advantage of a single feature, such as its firewall capabilities, or to divide the firewall and web proxy features between additional servers, each with their own respective function. ISA grows with your network, allowing you to expand, split, or combine services as needed. Unlike other firewall products, ISA allows you to individually set access permissions based on the user account, IP address, or web-site request—these are powerful features for organizations that must comply with State and Federal regulations.
Newer released of ISA server 2004 and ISA Server 2006 have additional services not included with the original release of ISA Server 2000. Exiis Corporation has been intimately involved with ISA Server Products and Technologies since it original Beta testing phase—our knowledgeable ISA Server engineers are familiar with all aspects of ISA Server, from design planning through to migrating and deploying the latest release. If you are considering changing your current firewall to a more robust firewall solution, Exiis Corporation ISA Consulting Professionals can assist you no matter which phase you are at in the process. A firewall is only as secure as the network administrator who configures it—and when it comes to network security, Exiis Corporation knows it best.
Highlights of Microsoft ISA Server Consulting Services
ü Affordable server-based licensing that is not tied the amount of users on your network, allowing you to add or remove users without affecting your IT budget.
ü Active Directory based permissions, allowing you to control access to the Internet, prevent downloads; limit availability based on work hours, and complete monitoring of each users Internet interactions.
ü Seamless integration with Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, Exchange Server 2003, and Exchange Server 2007 with special built-in features such as the RPC filter that allows Remote Procedure Calls over the Internet and enabling “Outlook Anywhere Features: while at the same time protecting your network infrastructure.
ü A user-friendly management console that administrators can utilize to manage and change firewall policies and procedures. The management console for ISA server is easily learned and quickly mastered in a relatively short amount of time without the need to learn a programming language.
ü Built-in security monitoring and reports to keep track of user interaction, intrusion attempts, and common network threats.
ü Built-in advanced filtering for Microsoft Internet Information Servers (IIS) allows organizations to publish their web servers on the Internet while providing advanced security and hacker-resistant protection.
ü Load-balancing bandwidth priority utilization allows administrators to control the amount of bandwidth dedicated to any specific network device. Bandwidth utilization allows you to dedicate any amount of your network bandwidth to devices such as your IP telephony devices while allocating the remaining bandwidth to external web servers, allowing you to choose where bandwidth is most important.
ü Local caching of commonly accessed web site keeps a local copy of these web pages on the hard drive which means end-users are not using valuable bandwidth to fetch the same web pagers over and over again. Organizations with a slow Internet connection benefit greatly from the local caching feature as web pages are returned to the end users at a significantly faster rate.
ü The ability to create a complete DMZ, separate from your internal network servers offers additional protection. This allows external servers to be placed on the Internet while blocking traffic to the internal servers.
ü Additional third-party add-ons are available from other Microsoft Partners that allow you to increase the capabilities of Microsoft ISA Server. These features include advanced anti-virus programs, additional web access filtering, and monitoring tools to name a few.
How Exiis Corporation ISA Server Consulting Services Can Help
While ISA provides a user friendly configuration console, firewall rules can be complex and oftentimes not configured correctly; this creates unanticipated holes in your firewall defense, leaving network resources exposed. Restrictions that are too tight can have the opposite effect, hindering network users from performing their duties. Creating complex routing rules and policies require extensive experience by a knowledgeable consulting engineer. Exiis Corporation has the resources to assist you with your Microsoft ISA Server 2000, 2004, 2006 environment. If you currently have ISA 2000 installed, we can review your policies and firewall rules. If you are planning to migrate or upgrade from ISA Server 2000 to ISA Server 2004 or ISA Server 2006, we can assist you with the process—a lot has changed since the initial release of ISA Server 2000. Finally, if you are upgrading from another firewall product, Exiis Corporation can help you translate your old firewall rules from ISA Server 2000 to the latest release.