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Micrsoft ISA server & Terminal Services

Asked by: credmood

All,

very quickly....

Do you need to run ISA server in order to get any benfits from terminal services? I have websense and checkpoint firewall and want to know if I need to run ISA at all...

The only thing Im thinking off is if (as most cleints run over terninal services) if ISA gives you any benefits if its runs with Term Services...

I dont see the point and wish to just run a websense/checkpoint intergrated solution....

Has anyone any ideas/pointers on this?

Thanks as always for any guidance

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2006-11-07 at 08:26:02ID22051974
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websense

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isa

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services

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terminal

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MS Forefront-ISA

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Miscellaneous Networking

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Remote Desktop/Terminal Services

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Answers

 

by: skaap2kPosted on 2006-11-07 at 08:35:12ID: 17890735

If you're confident with your checkpoint+websense firewall, I wouldnt bother with ISA server at all, i do not believe that it would give you any benefit as the terminal services protocol is pretty much closed and will just be passed through to the service to be serviced

If anything, ISA server might just cause you configuration problems ;)

-Rob

 

by: sow56091Posted on 2006-11-07 at 08:43:37ID: 17890820

I agree with skaap2k. A possible advantage of ISA, though, might be integration of your firewall to Active Directory, such that you could screen access to Terminal Services by using LDAP data via ISA--though this might be unnecessary in your scenario.

 

by: credmoodPosted on 2006-11-07 at 10:40:18ID: 17891816

thanks people, what about ISA in a proxy scenario? I can se its a bit pointless to have 2 firewalls in effect, but doesnt ISA act as a proxy? and is this a benfit at all?

Im trying to cover as much base as possible as I know I will be asked by the boss why I think just a checpoint/websense is the way to go...

 

by: skaap2kPosted on 2006-11-07 at 10:48:21ID: 17891886

Yes, you can use ISA as a proxy server - and in this case, it could be very useful as you can use NTLM authentication for users on the domain - this can be useful for auditting, access control etc, and generally transparent to the user (except for a few IE proxy setting changes)

-Rob

 

by: credmoodPosted on 2006-11-07 at 11:04:34ID: 17891999

so, to get things straight for a best option......I use a websense/checkpoint scenario with a ISA proxy server (i assume ISA has a setting whether to use it as a proxy or Fwall) you mention NTLM, I assume that this is on top of the kerboros auth that is used for the main logons....or am i not understanding ?

Thanks for you help

 

by: skaap2kPosted on 2006-11-07 at 12:13:05ID: 17892513

Yes, you can switch on the proxy part of it somewhere in there :)

In that, you have to choose whether you need users to authenticate or not to use the proxy - this is normally linked to your active directory users.

NTLM authentication is the type of authentication which most browsers will automatically send their domain credentials to when asked for them.

:)
Rob

 

by: credmoodPosted on 2006-11-07 at 13:18:53ID: 17893112

Thanks for this......:o)

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