Introduction

ISA Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2006 is a firewall and proxy product from Microsoft. It can protects local network from hackers, limit access for internet access, improve internet speed for users and also logging any connections that pass through ISA Server.

Or you can say that ISA Server is a gateway between intranet(LAN) and internet so it has more than one network interfaces usually it has 2 or 3 network interfaces depends on network topology(Edge firewall, 3-Leg Perimeter, etc.) in your organization.

The series are divided into 5 parts:

This post will show how to install ISA Server 2006 Standard Edition on a Windows 2003 Server which has 2 network interfaces: one is connected to internal network(LAN) and the other connected to external(Internet). The diagram is as below:
Example firewall diagram

Step-by-step

  1. Open ISA setup program.
    ISA Setup
  2. Click Next.
    License Agreement page
  3. Enter your license information. Click Next.
    Customer Information page
  4. Select Setup Type. If you want to customize features or change installed directory, select Custom. Otherwise, select Typical. I leave Typical for convenience.
    Setup Type page
  5. On Internal Network, you must enter your internal IP address range. You can do this by adding manually or select from network adapter. Before click Next, ensure that your network addressed was configured correctly.
    Internal Network page
  6. On Firewall Client Connections, if you haven’t upgrade from previous ISA Server(ISA 2000 or 2004), leave the check box uncheck and click Next. Otherwise, check the check box before continue.
    Firewall Client Connections page
  7. On Service Warning, click Next. Notice that some of services will be restarted or disabled while installing.
    Service Warning page
  8. Click Install.
    Install ISA Server 2006
  9. Wait for install finishes.
    Installing ISA Server 2006
  10. You can check “Invoke ISA Server Management when the wizard closes” if you want to configure ISA now.
    Finish install ISA Server 2006
  11. Now you have finished installing ISA Server 2006. For configure the ISA details, continue on the next part.
    ISA Server Management
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