One of two books on ISA Server 2000 in print.

Learn how to filter unwanted Web content, secure their networks, and enhance performance through multiple caching abilities.

This how-to book has potential as an "unofficial" study guide for the MCSE exam. Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 is more than a simple firewall product. A simple firewall product contains packet and circuit filtering, but Microsoft adds application filtering, which allows for extensibility. In addition to filtering, ISA also provides caching, publishing, and routing. These are features that web administrators are looking for in a product that provides web security and network performance enhancements. The reader will also receive comprehensive appendices on information related to all ISA Server performance counters and ISA Server messages. Readers will find information in this book that they wont find in any other book on the market, including how to install ISA clients via SMS, publish products such as SQL Server and Oracle, and set up ISA to prevent SMTP hacks.