Is it safe to publish a Web site directly on your Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 computer

For the moment we use a separate Windows 2000 member server with ISA
2000.
But our management wants to save on servers and wants to place the ISA
server on a WEB server. It will be ISA 2004 standard edition. The
following document describes the way to install it.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885186


My question is, is it save to do so and what are the reason not to
install it on a WEB server with IIS 6.0?

jeff
Mon Aug 29 21:03:22 CDT 2005

On 26 Aug 2005 02:20:31 -0700, "Glider" <mcp_isa@hotmail.com> wrote:

>For the moment we use a separate Windows 2000 member server with ISA
>2000.
>But our management wants to save on servers and wants to place the ISA
>server on a WEB server. It will be ISA 2004 standard edition. The
>following document describes the way to install it.
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885186
>
>
>My question is, is it save to do so and what are the reason not to
>install it on a WEB server with IIS 6.0?

It is less safe than installing on a separate server. It is more safe
than injstalling on an unpatched server with no ISA or firewall
protection. A failure in the ISA or web configuration can compromise
the server, which is why it's no suggested. But it saves a box, which
meets the mandate of management.

Jeff