I recently came across a very interesting problem while configuring ISA 2006 logging to a remote SQL server. If you have ever done this, you’ll no doubt know that its not a very complicated thing to do –in fact, Richard Hicks has a great guide on his blog, here. It really surprised me when I [...]
In Microsoft ISA Server, alerts can be configured to shut down the Microsoft Firewall service when situations that raise specific events occur. Whenever the Firewall service shuts down, ISA Server goes into lockdown mode, in which only specific types of traffic are allowed. ISA Server can leave lockdown mode only when the Firewall service is [...]
I came across this issues on a ISA 2006 proxy server the other day. Basically, if you are logging to a MSDE database you may experience high memory usage by SQL server because the amount of physical memory that is allocated for SQL Server is not limited by default.
It is possible to limit the amount [...]
