Friday, August 10, 2007

ISA 2006 Web Publishing News

Secure Web Publishing

ISA 2006 includes a number of improvements in providing secure remote access to Web servers and services on the corporate network. Some of these include:

- New SharePoint Portal Server Publishing Wizard
- Improved Outlook Web Access (OWA), Outlook Mobile Access (OMA), Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) and Outlook 2003+ RPC/HTTP Web Publishing Wizard
Increased options for two factor authentication, including SecureID and RADIUS One-time passwords
- New Kerberos constrained delegation enables remote users with laptops and Windows mobile-enable devices to use secure user certificates to authenticate to the ISA firewall
- New LDAP authentication allows ISA 2006 to be placed in a high security DMZ and leverage Active Directory users/groups
- Web farm load balancing. This new feature enables you to publish a collection of Web servers that perform the same function or contain the same content and have the ISA 2006 firewall automatically load balance the connections. ISA Server is about to do this without requiring NLB or an hardware load balancer, with great increases the simplicity of deployment and greatly reduces the cost by removing the hardware load balancer