Newbie help

[Stevehewitt]

Hey ppl.

I'm a complete newbie to ISA and have whacked it on recently after developing a Win2k Networking (SBS). I started off having all workstations pointing to the router as a default gateway (using DHCP). Now I have started to play with ISA the users all go to the ISA server which then has the router as the gateway.

Now I am really stuck. I have tried to create rules and policies but none of them seem to work. I have created banned URLs and redirect to a page on my server. It just won't work. I have tried banning internet access altogether and that won't work either.
Any ideas? Any free sites that may be able to help me start off banning a few sites?

Also, can ISA banned keywords. Say the word casino, or sex? So I wouldn't have to enter in every single URL, just URL's that may contain them??

Many thanks, I know that newbies can be a pain in the arse!!! ;-)

Cheers Steve Hewitt
Systems Manager

Windows 2000 Microsoft Certified Professional (75 - 215)

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[sparky0904]

Also new, installed it yesterday and found that i coudl not access web, to ba fair though i have left the gateway as it is for now not routing the the isa server.

What i did to was setup I.E to use the isa server as a proxy server, this did not work until i added a protcol rule to allow all protcols, well weird.

Anyway check you have a protocol rule and if not add a allow all one to get you started.

Mark

 

[MapMan]

I can certainly sympathize with both of you. But, there's hope. I strongly suggest you visit

http://www.isaserver.org

and head right for The Learning Zone.

Things to read up on are SecureNAT, packet-filters and site and content rules. Good luck and it really is worth all the hassle.

HTH, MapMan

Assume nothing, question everything, be explicit not implicit, and you'll always be covered.