Best Practices

• Use Advanced ISA Logging to an MSDE or SQL Database to take advantage of the real-time logging and searching capabilities that this type of logging allows.

• Use the logging mechanism to troubleshoot connectivity problems and errors with firewall policy rules.

• Reset VPN sessions from the Sessions tab of the Monitoring node if changes are made to the VPN policy.

• Use Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 with the ISA Server 2004 Management Pack to monitor an ISA Server 2004 environment whenever possible.

• Make use of connectivity verifiers to provide "quick glance" views of critical network services.