Microsoft releases Service Pack 2 for ISA Server 2004

Madrid, February 3 2005. - Microsoft has released ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2, aimed at offering, among other advantages, three new features including BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service), HTTP compression and traffic prioritization.

ISA Server 2004 SP2 can cache content downloaded with Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)- which can be helpful to download updates and service packs. For example, when a network does not employ Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS), the BITS caching feature can help reduce global network traffic when users try to download the updates directly from Windows Update.

HTTP compression, on the other hand, is a typical method for reducing bandwidth consumption as it allows ISA Server to request compressed content, and serve compressed content from its Web cache to clients. This enables faster serving of Web pages.

The last new feature incorporated is traffic prioritization, a new global setting that can apply to all browser traffic that passes through ISA Server. ISA Server 2004 SP2 supports setting the DiffServ field in Internet Protocol (IP) packets based on URLs)

As with all Service Packs from Microsoft, ISA Server 2004 SP2 also includes a number of updates and improvements aimed at improving performance and improving user experience with ISA Server 2004. Changes include:
- Support for Windows Server 2003 R2 and other related R2 versions, such as Microsoft SQL Server 2005
- Improvements to the Cache Array Routing Protocol system
- New certified warnings
- Service Quality Monitoring (SQM) support and all Hotfixes and updates published since 11/1/2005.

Full information about this service pack and its availability at:
http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/evaluation/sp2/default.mspx

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2006-02-06 13:48

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