Re: ISA 2004 and newsgroups without ISA Client

Thanks Terence. This new access rule pretty much did the the trick. I can read and reply to messages using Windows Mail. One more thing though...

The information about number of messages and number of unread messages no longer displays in the bottom left corner. However, this information IS present when I'm reading newsgroups using a connection outside the SBS network (this is a laptop I'm working on).

Any thoughts? Thanks.


"Terence Liu [MSFT]" <v-terliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1IY%23bjJrHHA.2116@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello Edward,

Thank you for posting here.

According to your description, I understand that you want to let the
internal SecureNAT client can access the UseNet Newsgroups through ISA
server 2004. If I have misunderstood the problem, please don't hesitate to
let me know.

Based on my research, I suggest we try the following steps to see if we can
resolve this issue:

Please open the ISA management console, navigate to Firewall Policy, right
click "Firewall Policy" and click New->Access Rule, then create a new
access rule as following:

Rule name: Internal SecureNAT client access Newsgroups

Rule Action: Allow

Protocols: NNTP

Sources: internal

Destination: external

User Sets: All Users

Then move this rule to the top and click Apply to save all the settings.

If we can not resolve the issue after we perform the above steps, please
kindly help me collect some information for further investigation:

1. What's kind of newsgroup client application using on the SecureNAT
workstation? Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express or others?

2. Can you access the Newsgroup on the ISA Firewall Client?

3. Do you get any error when you access the Newsgroup from the SecureNAT
workstation? Please capture screenshots on the error messages and send the
pictures to me at v-terliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

4. Please help to gather the ISA Info:

1) Download the file from the following URL:

http://www.isatools.org/tools/isainfo.zip

2) Extract all files to a folder on ISA server.

3) Double click Isainfo.js. This will generate 2 files
ISAInfo2004-<computer-name>.log and ISAInfo2004-<computer-name>.xml in the
current folder.

4) Please send these files to me at v-terliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

5. Please also help to gather the ISA logs:

1) Schedule a down time.

2) Open ISA 2004 management console.

3) Expand the server node and highlight 'Monitoring'.

4) In the right pane, switch to the 'Logging' tab, make sure the 'Task
Pane' is showed there.

5) In the 'Task Pane', click 'Configure Firewall Logging' under 'Logging
Tasks', and then switch the 'log storage format' from 'MSDE database'
(default) to 'File'.

6) Switch to the 'Fields' tab, click 'Select All', and then click OK.

7) In the 'Task Pane', click 'Configure Web Proxy Logging' under 'Logging
Tasks', and then switch the 'log storage format' from 'MSDE database'
(default) to 'File'.

8) Switch to the 'Fields' tab, click 'Select All', and then click OK.

9) Click 'Apply' to save changes and update the configuration.

10) Temporarily disable the Firewall service. To do that, please click
Monitoring | Services tab, and then right click 'Microsoft Firewall' to
choose 'Stop'.

11) Clear the current existing W3C logs. To do that, go to the log saving
directory and clean any existing .W3C logs. By default, the logs will be
saved to 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft ISA Server\ISALogs'. (Some MDF may not
be able to deleted, that's normal.) You may backup them first and then
delete them.

12) Go back to the ISA 2004 management console, and then Start the stopped
'Microsoft Firewall' service.

13) Reproduce the problem, stop the service, and then gather the resulting
W3C files to me for analysis.

14) Please also let me know the IP address of the testing clients so that I
can filter the data.

Hope these steps will give you some help.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Best regards,

Terence Liu(MSFT)

Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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| From: "Edward Lee" <eleee@xxxxxxxx>
| Subject: ISA 2004 and newsgroups without ISA Client
| Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:48:32 -0500
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| X-Priority: 3
| X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
| X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16386
| X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6000.16386
| X-MS-CommunityGroup-PostID: {6A944B41-66CF-4762-9B73-17D8C64E5BAE}
| X-MS-CommunityGroup-MessageCategory:
{E4FCE0A9-75B4-4168-BFF9-16C22D8747EC}
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
| Path: TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl
| Xref: TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs:43020
| NNTP-Posting-Host: TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl 127.0.0.1
| X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
|
| How can I configue ISA 2004 on SBS2k3 to allow usenet newsgroups for
client
| PCs using SecureNAT rather than ISA Firewall Client?
|
| Thanks
|
|


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