Microsoft Unveils Firewall Client for ISA Server

The Redmond Company has announced the immediate availability for download of its Firewall Client for the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server. Supported by Windows 2000; Windows NT; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP, Firewall Client is designed for ISA Server 2006 Standard Edition ISA Server 2006 Enterprise Edition, ISA Server 2004 Standard Edition, ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition, ISA Server 2000 Standard Edition and ISA Server 2000 Enterprise Edition.

The 3.9 MB ISACLIENT-KB905662-X86-ENU.EXE file made available for download is deigned both for 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

"As an ISA Server administrator, you can deploy the Firewall Client software on the client computers in your corporate network. In this way, these clients can have broader application access on the Internet; the client software enables clients to send requests to all Windows Sockets (Winsock)-based applications. Furthermore, as the administrator, you can configure a user-based firewall policy, which depends on the authentication credentials that the Firewall Client can present. This version of the Firewall Client software enables the installation of the Firewall Client on 32-bit and 64-bit computers," revealed Microsoft.