Re: ISA 2004 and AOL 9 won't work right...

<q> (thats all AOL is really...a huge peer to peer network) </q>

Gee and all this time I thought it was malware . It sure drags machines down like spyware.
<grin>

SusanV
"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" <crisnospamhanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e1kQZbifIHA.4728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I understand this is your client, but at some point they need to understand that they either want a business network or a home peer to peer network (thats all AOL is really...a huge peer to peer network)

They can get their mail via aol.com They don't need the AOL client. Simply tell them that the AOL client software is not compatible with network security requirements.

But they have to make a choice...its not your choice.

Do they want secure? Or do they want AOL?

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"Andrew Meador" <ameador1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:43e19dcb-b748-4dc5-b9e1-e304e9f3b4ba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a client that has ISA Server 2004 on SBS 2003 Premium. ISA
was configured with the SBS Internet Access Rule to allow All Users to
get to the internet. This was to avoid having to setup the ISA
Firewall Client. Well, they have a wireless access point running that
somehow was reset to factory default. I had it set to allow only
certain comupters to connect and get IPs from the server.
However,since it was reset, about 60 people from the immediate
vacinity starting connecting and using the internet through this
access point. So, as a precaution, I pushed the ISA Firewall Client
down to the client computers and reconfigured ISA Internet Access Rule
to allow only SBS Internet Users. This will stop users from outside
the network from accessing the internet throught the T1, even in the
event the the wireless access point goes to factory defaults again.
Now, the new problem is that this company has always been AOL
junkies. They have a few AOL e-mail accounts that they are determined
to keep using and they are all very used to using AOL. I have tried my
best to get them to switch off and use their own e-mail system with
Outlook and OWA, but to no avail. As you have probably seen, AOL and
ISA don't get along. I have found and read the following:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/isa/2004/plan/aol.mspx but to get it
to work, I would have to remove/deactivate the ISA Firewall client,
which is a backwards security step and will put us back in the same
possition as before with wide access to the internet there again.
Does anyone have another solution, that will not compromise
security, to make AOL work fully? BTW, AOL does work as far as pulling
down e-mail in this state, but they cannot browse web pages and I'm
not sure about their IM features yet, or any other AOL crap I don't
know about. They want full AOL 9 use, without network compromise. What
to do?
I have even tried setting them up to have the AOL mail pulled into
their Outlook boxes, but they don't like that either - something about
some kind of folders they use in AOL that doesn't pull in right.
There has got to be some kind of fix to this stuff. I ran into
another application (McAfee virus scanner - home type version) that
can't update correcly and MS (or maybe McAfee) recommends in that case
to allow All users and such. It's a freakin firewall - why is
everyones solution to these thing to break it's functionality, can't
it be made to work correctly with these apps?
Please help frustrated me!!!

Thanks!
Andrew

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