Why Upgrade

Clientless remote access through SSL connections form the core of SSL VPNs.

The ISA Server 2006 Outlook Web Access Publishing Wizard walks you through creating a firewall rule and creates the Outlook Web Access SSL connection to your Exchange Server.

All network elements can be created in the wizard, and you never need to leave the wizard to create a policy element.

Automatically configures a site-to-site VPN connection between two separate offices.

Configuration wizard for publishing Windows SharePoint Services, Exchange, and general Web sites.

Branch Office VPN Connectivity Wizard configures site-to-site VPN connections.

ISA Server 2006 Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition available in preconfigured hardware.

Underlying architecture provides for more efficiency.

Includes a new set of rule wizards that makes it easier to create access policy.

Create access policy with a sophisticated firewall rule that you can use to configure any required policy element.

Create a network object without leaving the rule wizard.

Create any network object or relationship within the new wizard.

Protects ISA Server 2006 from being permanently unavailable, compromised, or unmanageable during a flooding attack.

Provides log throttling, control of memory consumption, and control of pending DNS queries to enhance remediation during attack.

Authenticate users with built-in Windows, LDAP, RADIUS, or RSA SecurID authentication.

Separate front-end and back-end configuration provides for more flexibility and granularity.

Supports single sign-on for authentication to Web sites.

Apply rules to users or user groups in any namespace.

Third-party vendors can use the SDK to extend built-in authentication mechanisms.

Allows users to access a group of published Web sites without being required to authenticate with each Web site.

Use forms-based authentication for all published Web sites, not just for Outlook Web Access.

Includes improved control of cookie-based sessions to provide for better security.

Authenticate to Active Directory without being a member of the domain.

Includes a link translation feature that you can use to create a dictionary of definitions for internal computer names that map to publicly known names.

Implements link translation automatically during Web publishing.

Allows links in Web content containing an internal server name to be translated to the public name, even if the Web content is published in a different array.

Provides the caching mechanism for data received through BITS.

Any cache rule that you create can be enabled to cache BITS data.

Automatically balances the request stream coming from a remote user to an array of published servers.

Reduces file size by using algorithms to eliminate redundant data during transmission of HTTP packets.

Includes a new packet prioritization functionality (provided by the Diffserv Web filter), which scans the URL or domain and assigns a packet priority using Diffserv bits.