You Can Set the Requirements for the Next Version of the ISA Firewall: ISA 2008 — Become a Microsoft Technology Adoption Partner (TAP)
Are you an ISA Firewall fan? Are you curious about the ISA Firewall but haven’t used it yet? Are you a dyed in the wool ISA Firewall admin who’s been working with the product for the last eight years? Maybe you’re in between these categories but still like working with the ISA Firewall from time to time.
How would you like to have a chance at shaping the feature set of the next version of the ISA Firewall, which will be ISA 2008? Have there been features you wished were in previous versions and it frustrated you that they weren’t there? Well, here’s you chance to get things changed!
You can have major impact on the future of the ISA Firewall software by becoming a member of the Microsoft ISA Firewall Technology Adoption Partner (TAP) group. If you choose to be a TAP participant, you will participate very early in the development cycle and receive very early bits and continue to receive updated bits as they are released. You will deploy early release bits in a limited production rollout, and expand the rollout as more stable and complete builds become available.
If you like, I can become your TAP assistant and work closely with you during your deployment, from initial planning, to setup, to configuration and to ongoing maintenance. I’m willing to work closely with you and your company in any capacity you wish on your ISA 2008 rollout as a member of the Microsoft TAP program.
If you’re interested, here what you need to know:
- Microsoft wants to know YOUR requirements for the next version of ISA
- Microsoft would like to showcase your deployment when the product launches
- Microsoft would like to build a long-term relationship with you during the development and deployment of ISA 2008 on your network
- Your company has from 50-1500 PCs protected by the ISA Firewall
Sound interesting? If so, write me a note at tshinder@tacteam.net and I’ll help get you started!
Thanks!
Tom
Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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MVP — Microsoft Firewalls (ISA)
Mohsin Says:
March 6th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Dear Sir ,
I am Security administrator in this russian company . we are using isa 2004 on arrays for corporate lan , VPN and for billing networks . Its a telecom company . I have found so many issues in isa 2004 . I did not find soultion on microsoft technet .
I am also working on isa 2006 and offcourse interested in isa 2008 and heard from you first time.
Regards
Mohsin
Kumar N. Says:
March 6th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Hi! Tom,
Our Organisation is a gold partner for MS based at Mumbai,India.We hv been implementing ISA since ver 2000 days.I am interested in providing info for ISA 2008.Can you please give me further details on required qualifications from my side.
Thanks,
Kumar.
Luiz Henrique Bobbio Says:
March 7th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Hi! Tom,
I´m a firewall admin of a univercity from brazil. I´m interested in providifo info for ISA 2008. Just send me a e-mail telling what a gonna do.
thanks
samair Says:
March 12th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Dear Tom,
I am Security administrator working for GTM. I am using isa 2004 (moved on from 2000)
was fascinated by the product and certainly loved it 2004 is more user friendly
I am also working on isa 2006 and off course I am interested in isa 2008 as well.
Let me know if I can be any assistance to you
Regards
Samair
Carlos Santos Says:
March 12th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Hi Tom,
I’m a network Eng. for a Medical software ASP. I’ve been using MS ISA server since Proxy 2.0 days. I love this product for the way it integrates with MS Backoffice products we have other firewalls on our network like Nokia’s CheckPoint, PIX, Nortel etc.. But I still prefer ISA to publish our MS servers hands down (I just like Exchange RPC/HTTP publishing and activesync….. good luck trying that with another firewall). There’s allot of things that I wish ISA server would be able to support one major feature is VoIP QOS. I can’t beleive MS has never heard of this technology? Whats taking them so long…. at least we are now seeing SSL VPN’s on ISA 2006 but it took a while (Celestix)… Anyways there’s allot of features that I would like to see on ISA 2008.
Thanks,
Carlos
Abdul Mohsin Says:
March 15th, 2007 at 1:30 am
Must include user level bandwidth distribution option in ISA 2008.
Thanks!
AMZ
Luis Carlos Pinzon Says:
March 15th, 2007 at 10:29 am
I´ve been working with ISA since 2000 version. It´s time that ISA competes with the rest of others FW. ISA 2008 must be NAT funcionalities, better reports, bandwith, several ISP´s support without using Rainconnect, browser quotes and more.
Gustavo De Biasi Says:
March 20th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Hello Tom
I’ve been using Microsoft Firewall since it was just MSProxy 2.0 and I follow the ISA Server Evolution, and I want to help the ISA deployment team. I guess we all need some functionalities like level bandwidth, two gateways support and stuff. So, I want to participate in this group to improve our product.
Thanks!!!
Gustavo De Biasi
Thomas Shinder Says:
March 20th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Hi everyone!
Send me a note at tshinder@tacteam.net and I’ll provide you follow up information.
Thanks!
Tom
Tarek Majdalani Says:
May 24th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Will Do
Gonçalo Caeiro Says:
September 19th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
We are running ISA 2006. We would like to see if ISA 2008 has native support for SIP / RTP related protocols.