Device Type Examples | Microsoft volume 2 specification

10microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 for Embedded Systems with Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006

www.microsoft.com/isaserver

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 is the integrated edge security gateway that helps protect IT environments from Internet-based threats while providing users with fast and secure remote access to applications and data. ISA Server 2006 is an advanced firewall, VPN, and Web-caching solution that enables customers to improve network security and performance.

Features of ISA Server 2006 include:

»Secure Application Publishing: enables organizations to make their Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003, and other Web application servers accessible in a secure manner to remote users outside the corporate network

»Branch Office Gateway: organizations can connect to and secure their branch offices, while efficiently utilizing network bandwidth

»Web Access Protection: helps organizations protect their environments from internally and externally originating Internet-based threats

ISA Server 2006 provides advanced protection, ease of use, and fast, secure access for all types of networks. ISA Server 2006 is particularly well suited for protecting Microsoft applications and services, such as Microsoft Office, Office Outlook® Web Access 2003, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Internet Information Services (IIS), Routing and Remote Access Services, Active Directory, and many other Microsoft applications, servers, and services.

Microsoft licenses a special version of ISA Server 2006 to OEMs building dedicated servers and server appliances that provide IT security or Web-performance services. The embedded version of ISA Server 2006 is licensed together with a Windows Server 2003 for Embedded Systems operating system (see page 4), packaged together as a server platform.

Windows Server 2003 R2 for Embedded Systems with ISA Server 2006 is based on the same software as the generally available, retail versions of Windows Server 2003 and ISA Server 2006. The main difference is that the software must be used on dedicated servers or server appliances. In addition, the embedded version of ISA Server 2006 comes with special hardening tools to help OEMs optimize the security of the ISA Server 2006 application software and the Windows Server 2003 operating system. Both the Windows Server 2003 operating system and ISA Server 2006 software must be preinstalled on the dedicated server or server appliance solution.

DEVICE TYPE EXAMPLES:

»VPN server

»Firewall server

»Web-caching server

»SSL VPN

»Antivirus