Installing Service Pack 1 For ISA Server 2006 Remotely
“If you are one of those ISA Server administrators that perform most of your tasks remotely, and now that ISA Server 2006 SP1 is released, you intend to install it remotely, but you are worried that few services would need to stop and you would be disconnected from the remote desktop session in the middle of the installation process and afraid of not being able to reconnect to ISA Server again. Then the good news is that with SP1 for ISA Server 2006, you can safely install it remotely through RDP session”
Check out the article by Tarek Majdalani at:
http://www.elmajdal.net/ISAServer/Installing_Servi...y.aspx
HTH,
Tom
Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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Craig Ongers Says:
July 17th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Hi Tom,
Are you sure one can do this remotely even if you come in via the External Adapter?
I tried on a few client servers and could install it remotely fine if I was sitting on the Internal Network but could not do it via the External Network as the Firewall Service is stopped and it sits and waits for the administrator to confirm the reboot.
Would be great to be able to confirm the reboot before the install. We manage dozens of ISA firewalls over the internet so we will have to look at scripting the install for e.g.
Kind regards,
Craig.
Robin Minto Says:
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:43 am
Yes, I agree with Craig’s comment. I discovered that my connection via the External network is closed during the install - let’s hope Tarik updates his article to make it clear that you have to be connected internally.
One workaround is to schedule a reboot before you start:
shutdown -r -f -t 600
but that assumes the install takes less than ten minutes.
Thanks,
Robin
Thomas Shinder Says:
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:07 am
Hmmm. That could be trouble. But it doesn’t make sense that it would work from internal connection and not external connections. I’ll have to test this out and see what happens.
Thanks!
Tom