Re: When is next version of ISA coming out?

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> Not happy with ISA2004?? Out of pure curiosity, what exactly do you need
> that's not there in ISA2004?

Hi Virgil:

Not unhappy, just wondering what's brewing in the kitchen.

There's a bunch of things that might be included: built-in antivirus with
MS's purchase of Antigen, the Next-Gen TCP/IP stack with it's enhanced
filtering/IDS
capabilities(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0905.mspx),
better IDS features, putting the HTTP referrer field in Web Proxy logs,
built-in RPC-Over-HTTPS proxy as an Application Filter, .NET and Monad
integration, "edge server" capabilities similar to Exchange in an "edge"
configuration, real-time replication of the state table to other hot spares
or NLB members, better RADIUS integration that doesn't require PAP or
little-known registry value tweaks, an application filter just for SQL
Server 2005 or SharePoint or whatever, increasing the number of permitted
CPUs in standard edition now that dual-core hyper-threaded CPUs are coming
out, ability to boot from DVD and run entirely in RAM (unlikely), support
for other distributed caching protocols besides CARP, support in RRAS for
BGP, a full pre-packaged implemenation of VPN quarantine with good tools,
built-in rootkit detection and defenses, additional support for third-party
hardware accelerators for doing application-layer inspection, ability to do
historical queries against text logs in addition to MSDE logs, exposure of
all ISA COM objects via WMI, enhancements to the ISA COM objects and SDK,
built-in SOCKS5 support with the bells&whistles necessary for full
interoperability with Mac and Linux clients, even more low-level control
over RPC/DCOM/COM+ details, built-in web filter for XML/SOAP/BizTalk,
built-in HTTP signatures for allowing/blocking a large variety of
P2P/IM/whatever-over-HTTP clients, and in general new stuff to help ensure
that ISA won't be just another "firewall also-ran" in the long run (or new
stuff to show that MS isn't going to just abandon ISA out of the blue like
past products just because it isn't selling as well as they'd hoped).

Anyway, new stuff like that... :-)

Do you happen to know rough time-lines or new feature sets?



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