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ISA Server 2004 in Small Business Environment

Asked by jsvor in MS Forefront-ISA, Network Software Firewalls, Enterprise Firewalls

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I am responsible for putting together a new server for a small company of about 30 users and was looking for some advice on what to use for a firewall.  Once the new server is purchased I will have 3 machines to work with - Main Server (2x Xeon processors, 4 GB Ram, 600 GB drive space), Second Server (2x 2.4 Xeon, 1 GB Ram, 450 GB drive space), Third Server (P4 3.0, 512 MB, 330 GB drive space).  I will be putting SBS 2003 Premium on the new server and will be the DC, and handle DNS, DHCP, Exchange, file storage.  The second server will have Windows Server 2003 standard on it along with Terminal services.  I'm not sure if I will even need the third server or not.

Would it be a good idea to put on ISA 2004 on the SBS server and have it control the security/routing with a direct connection to the ISP connection or just get a firewall appliance like sonicwall?  I like the features of ISA and would like to try and implement it but I am not sure if it would be a good idea to put it on the SBS server and have it be directly connected to the internet. Also, the users are going to want remote access to their email (OWA) and the TS from their homes.  Thanks for the input.

                                                           |----> Second Server w/ TS
ISP Connection ---> SBS 2003 w/ ISA  --|  
                                                           |----> Client computers
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ISP Connection ---> Sonicwall ----> ???
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