Sometimes I have to restart the ISA firewall computer after installing the ISA firewall software. Whats up with that?
When you install Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 on a Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer or on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer, you receive the following message: You must restart your system for the configuration changes made to Microsoft ISA Server to take effect. Click Yes to restart now or No if you plan to restart later. However, if you subsequently remove and then reinstall ISA Server 2004, you are not prompted to restart your computer. CAUSE: This behavior occurs because of the configuration changes that the ISA Server 2004 Setup program makes to Windows. The ISA Server Setup program modifies the following registry subkey to set the value of the SynAttackProtect registry entry to 2: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TcpIp\Parameters To take effect, this registry change requires that you restart the computer. However, if you subsequently remove ISA Server 2004, the Setup program does not remove this registry entr
