The goal of this course is to provide Information Technology (IT) professionals with the knowledge and skills to deploy and manage Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 in an enterprise environment.

Audience

This course is intended for IT professionals and is not intended for network architects. Three of the major job roles performed by IT professionals to be addressed by this course include Web administrators, network administrators, and security administrators.

At Course Completion

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Explain the use of ISA Server as a cache server and as an enterprise firewall.
• Install and configure ISA Server as a cache server and as a firewall.
• Configure access policies to enable secure Internet access for client computers.
• Configure ISA Server as a cache server.
• Configure ISA Server as a virtual private network (VPN).
• Configure ISA Server as a firewall.
• Configure access to selected internal resources.
• Monitor ISA Server activities by using alerts, logging, reporting, and real-time monitoring.
• Install and configure ISA Server for an enterprise environment.

• Successfully completed Course 2152, Implementing Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server or have equivalent knowledge of Microsoft Windows® 2000 Professional and Windows 2000 Server.
• Successfully completed Course 2153, Implementing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure.

The course materials, lectures, and lab exercises are in English. To benefit fully from the instruction, students need an understanding of the English language and completion of the prerequisites.