ISA on SBS crashed

I have ISA 2004 installed on a SBS 2003 SP1 which is also running
Exchange, MS SQL and Active Directory.
This has affected OWA and the link
[url]http://mail.****.com:8080/exchange is not working. It gives a blank
page without any error report.
I have restored severally array configurations without success. I have
also done Directory services restore but cannot get it work. OWA on the
network works but not from outside the firewall - Cisco firewall.
I am wondering if its possible to 'repair ISA/reinstall ISA'
Furthermore https pages appear when blank - no error also. All
solutions av found on google haven't solved the problem.
If I completely remove ISA, what are the implications on my network?
The server was setup by a previous admin who left.

Thank you all

tnai9


--
tnai9
------------------------------------------------------------------------
tnai9's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/tnai9.htm
View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/small-business-server/1040840.htm

http://forums.techarena.in

Colin
Fri Sep 19 06:05:01 PDT 2008

Hi,

Was ISA installed prior to this issue or have you just installed it ? If so,
was OWA working previously ? I'm not sure why your URL points to port 8080 ?
If you have a Cisco Firewall (Pix/ASA ?) then why the need for ISA ? Please
give us a few more details and maybe someone can help.

Regards Colin.

"tnai9" wrote:

>
> I have ISA 2004 installed on a SBS 2003 SP1 which is also running
> Exchange, MS SQL and Active Directory.
> This has affected OWA and the link
> [url]http://mail.****.com:8080/exchange is not working. It gives a blank
> page without any error report.
> I have restored severally array configurations without success. I have
> also done Directory services restore but cannot get it work. OWA on the
> network works but not from outside the firewall - Cisco firewall.
> I am wondering if its possible to 'repair ISA/reinstall ISA'
> Furthermore https pages appear when blank - no error also. All
> solutions av found on google haven't solved the problem.
> If I completely remove ISA, what are the implications on my network?
> The server was setup by a previous admin who left.
>
> Thank you all
>
> tnai9
>
>
> --
> tnai9
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> tnai9's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/tnai9.htm
> View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/small-business-server/1040840.htm
>
> http://forums.techarena.in
>
>

SteveB
Fri Sep 19 08:04:17 PDT 2008

I agree with Colin and I see nothing here that indicates ISA has crashed.
Why do you think port 8080 is needed for OWA? What do you mean by restoring
several array configurations. Was port 443 forwarded from the Cisco to the
SBS external NIC before you started "mucking" around with the server?

"tnai9" <tnai9.3fzhzc@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
news:tnai9.3fzhzc@DoNotSpam.com...
>
> I have ISA 2004 installed on a SBS 2003 SP1 which is also running
> Exchange, MS SQL and Active Directory.
> This has affected OWA and the link
> [url]http://mail.****.com:8080/exchange is not working. It gives a blank
> page without any error report.
> I have restored severally array configurations without success. I have
> also done Directory services restore but cannot get it work. OWA on the
> network works but not from outside the firewall - Cisco firewall.
> I am wondering if its possible to 'repair ISA/reinstall ISA'
> Furthermore https pages appear when blank - no error also. All
> solutions av found on google haven't solved the problem.
> If I completely remove ISA, what are the implications on my network?
> The server was setup by a previous admin who left.
>
> Thank you all
>
> tnai9
>
>
> --
> tnai9
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> tnai9's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/tnai9.htm
> View this thread:
> http://forums.techarena.in/small-business-server/1040840.htm
>
> http://forums.techarena.in
>

tnai9
Fri Sep 26 04:00:06 PDT 2008


Thank you so much all for your responses.
Actually an ISA installation was existing but got corrupt after a
system state restore.
I found the ISA configuration that way and was working-with port 8080.
On the ISA server properties, outgoing web requests- there is configure
listeners individualy per IP address and TCP Port is set to 8080.
I cleared metadata and restored a newer system state than the one that
had made it crash.
For sometime, i wouldnt even access group policy mgmt console and
domain sec policy.
But now everything is ok. Am worried coz i didnt establish where the
problem was. I gambled with several things n finally it worked.

The effects of the corruption was 'locked' ADS, DHCP wouldnt assign
addresses - PCs had the 169.254.xx.xx addresses and everything just
stopped. No network printing, no browsing etc. Tho' some users would
work, login and access network resources.
The Server is SBS 2003 - running SQL, exchange and ISA.
I dont like it and really fighting to separate these servers.
Any guidance on what would have happened, way forward will be greatly
appreciated.

tnai9


--
tnai9
------------------------------------------------------------------------
tnai9's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/tnai9.htm
View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/small-business-server/1040840.htm

http://forums.techarena.in