Creating an Access Rule in ISA 2006

Hi ,

ISA is a very powerful tool by Microsoft because it gives Administrators the ease of Monitoring,Restricting,Allowing,Alerts,Sessions,Bandwidth utilization,logging and lots more.

It also enables an Admin to allow Multiple Internal Hosts to Access to internat by NAT/PAT at its own. IT Admin dont need to do anything to configure.

Today i will show you how to make an acces rule in ISA 2006.

Its quite simple and it will be a piece of cake for you as i have prepared a snapshot Article for all of you.

Open ISA Server Managment :

Expand Array --> ServerName ( mine is isatest ) --> FireWall Policy ,
Click on Task Pane at the Right Most Top and Click Create Access Rule,
Give the Rule a Name ,

Click Next and Allow the Rule :

Click Next and Add the Protocols shown in SnapShot :

Click Next and Add the Source named Internal ( Internal is used for User inside a netwo , this feature describe the NAT/PAT feature as in Router) :

Click Next and Add Destination to External :

Click Next and Define which users you want to allow this Rule for ( In my case i have allowed all users ). This is the main Feature of this product that allows you to Restrict or allow Users.

Click Next and Finish :

Rule is created as it is highlighted but its not yet been active, You need to Apply in order to use this rule.
Click Apply Shown on Top.

As you Click Apply the Following Window will popup ensuring that u have successfully created the Rule.

Click OK.

Check your Browser and yeah Internet is running :)

Cheers.

Himayat Ullah Khan (Cisco Certified Network Associate)