Connecting to the Internet

I recently got some new Servers running Windows Server
2003. These were upgrades to 2 older Servers runinng
Server 2000.

I noticed that the Servers running 2000 also had ISA
running on them.

For the Servers running 2003, do I need to also have ISA
as the proxy or can i still get on the net with out ISA.

Please assist in this issue.

Thank you in advance.

Hi Nelson,

ISA server is a firewall and a proxy server. You don't get these features
with pure Windows 2003. While you can use Windows 2003 (or Windows 2000, or
Windows XP for that matter) using NAT and routing service to go from LAN to
Internet there is no way to achieve security level that ISA can provide.

If you need high security for your network and proxy service you will have
to get ISA (or some other product that can do these tasks).

Note, that you can run ISA 2000 on Windows 2003 server.

Mike

"Nelson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I recently got some new Servers running Windows Server
> 2003. These were upgrades to 2 older Servers runinng
> Server 2000.
>
> I noticed that the Servers running 2000 also had ISA
> running on them.
>
> For the Servers running 2003, do I need to also have ISA
> as the proxy or can i still get on the net with out ISA.
>
> Please assist in this issue.
>
> Thank you in advance.