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From Deb and Tom Shinder, Authors
ISA Server has been a big part of our lives for the last four years. This is our third book about Microsoft's rapidly evolving firewall and caching solution, and we're more excited than ever about its new incarnation, ISA Server 2004.
We've been in on this one from the very beginning, and we've had a chance to experience the changes, additions and improvements through the alpha and beta stages of the software.
This book was a joint effort between the two of us, but it was also a team effort. There are dozens of people who contributed to the cause, without whom this book could not have been written:
We are deeply indebted to those on the ISA Server teams at Microsoft for involving us in the development, documentation and marketing of ISA. We especially want to thank those in Redmond, Dallas and Charlotte: Mike Nash, Steve Brown, Tony Bailey, Joseph Landes, Josue Fontanez, Marcus Schmidt, Risa Coleman, Mark Mortimer, Red Johnston, Dave Gardner, Joel Sloss, Julia Polk, Steve Riley, Zach Gutt, Mike Chan, Suzanne Kalberer, Kelly Mondloch, Alan Wood, Clint Denham, Ellen Prater, Scott Jiles, Sibylle Haupert, Amy Logan, Ari Fruchter, Ronen Boazi, Barclay Neira, Ben Guterson, Colin Lyth, Eric Rosencrantz, Jan Shanahan, Jim Edwards, and Walter Boyd, and we also want to thank Joern Wettern and Ronald Beekelaar for all their help and support.
We also want to thank the ISA team in Israel: Avi Nathan, Adina Hagege, Keren Master, Ron Mondri, Itai Greenberg, Yossi Siles, Sigalit Bar, Nathan Bigman, Linda Lior, Neta Amit, Amit Finkelstein, Meir Shmouely, Nir Ben Zvi, Opher Dubrovsky, Oren Trutner, Yigal Edery, Ziv Mador, Raz Goren, Mooly Beeri, Nir Caliv, Ziv Caspi, Gergory Bershansky, Ariel Katz, Dan Bar-Lev, Max Uritsky, Ronen Barenboim, Nir Michalowitz and Uri Barash.
Thank you to the hardware vendors who gave us the opportunity to work with their ISA Server-based appliances: John Curtis, John Amaral, Mike Druar, Kevin Murphy, Erika Batten, Bonnie Anderson, and Mark Roden, of Network Engines, Abdul Azhan of RimApp, Marc Semadeni of Hewlett Packard, and Yong Thye Lin and Yong Ping Lin of Celestix.
We want to thank our technical editor, Martin Grasdal, for his painstaking efforts to ensure that every procedure we outlined worked, that our descriptions and instructions were accurate and complete, and that our text was understandable - even the parts that we wrote at the end of an 18 hour day when we were hanging onto consciousness and our sanity by virtue of sheer willpower and numerous cups of coffee. We also thank Edwina Lewis, our copy editor, who wrestled with the terminology, whose eagle eye spotted our typos, and who stayed sweet and cheerful even when we got a little grumpy.
We also want to thank Stephen Chetcuti and Sean Buttgieg of Isaserver.org (www.isaserver.org) and Windowsecurity.com (www.windowsecurity.com), who provided us with forums in which we were able to promote both ISA Server itself and this book, and through which we got to know other ISA Server fans all over the world.
Thank you, too, to John Sheesley at Tech Republic/TechProGuild (www.techproguild.com), which hosted our series of articles on ISA Server 2004, and Amy Eisenberg and Patricia Colby, at Windows IT Pro Magazine (formerly Windows & .NET), which featured a number of our ISA Server 2004 articles.
We want to recognize all the other ISA Server MVPs whose ideas and help were invaluable in writing this book: Chris Gregory, Kai Wilke, Stefaan Pouseele, Jason Ballard, Bud Ratliff, Christian Groebner, Dieter Rauscher, Frédéric Esnouf, Jesper Hanno, Philippe Mathon, Phil Windell, Slav Pidgorny, Abraham Martínez Fernández .
In addition, special thanks to those who've supported and maintained the MVP program: Jerry Bryant, Emily Freet, Janni Clark, and John Eddy.
In addition, we want to thank the participants in the ISA Server newsgroups, mailing lists and message boards whose questions inspired many of the scenarios in this book, and others who contributed in various ways. In particular, we extend our gratitude to John Tolmachoff, Jeffrey Martin, Amy Babinchak, Steve Moffat, Greg Mulholland, Shawn Quillman, Joseph Kravitz, Tiago de Aviz, David Farinic, Aman Bedi, Bill Stewart, AWJ (Al), Susan Bradley, and many, many others. Thanks guys!
We also want to give special recognition to Jim Harrison. Jim Harrison works for Microsoft on the ISA Server QA team and maintains the exceptional Web site: www.isatools.org. Many of us would be lost without Jim's tools and his constant prodding to be better networkers and firewall admins than we are today.
All of the above were instrumental in the development and production of this book, but any errors or omissions lie solely on our heads. We tried to make the manuscript as accurate and mistake-free as possible, but perfection is a goal rather than an achievement. If we've left anyone out, please accept our sincerest apologies (these last days of finishing up the manuscript have been hectic, to say the least) and let us know so we can correct the mistake in the next edition of the book.
Lastly, we want to say a special thank you to the folks at Syngress Publishing who pushed us to do this book, who showed extraordinary patience and understanding as deadlines slipped, and who believed in us from the beginning: Andrew Williams, our publisher, and Jaime Quigley, our editor. Hey, guys, believe it or not, it's finally finished!
