Installing Service Pack 1 For ISA Server 2006 Remotely
Installing Service Pack 1 For ISA Server 2006 Remotely
Published
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July 05, 2008
Last Updated
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July 05, 2008
Introduction
If you are one of those ISA
Server administrators that perform most of your tasks
remotely, and now that ISA Server 2006 SP1 is released,
you intend to install it remotely, but you are worried
that few services would need to stop and you would be disconnected from the remote desktop
session in the middle of the installation process and
afraid of not being able to reconnect to ISA Server
again. Then the good news is that with SP1 for ISA
Server 2006, you can safely install it remotely through
RDP session.
After configuring the steps discussed in the previous article,
run Remote Desktop Connection to Connect to ISA Server 2006 machine.
Click on Start > Run >
type mstsc and then click on Enter
Enter the name or IP address of your ISA Server, and then
click on Connect
Type the ISA Server administrator username and password and then click on
Ok to logon
To Download Service Pack 1 for ISA Server 2006, click
here
I have downloaded it on the desktop, the file name of Service Pack 1 for ISA
Server 2006 is :
ISA2006-KB943462-X86-ENU.msp
Double click on the ISA2006-KB943462-X86-ENU.msp
file
On the Welcome to the Update for Microsoft ISA
Server 2006 Service Pack 1 page, click on Next
On the License Agreement page, accept the
terms by selecting the radio button beside I Accept the terms in the
license agreement, then click Next
On the Ready to Install the Program page
, click Install
Installation will starts, and a series of operations will
take place a shown in the below figures
Although the ISA Server related services will be stopped, your remote
desktop session will not be disconnected, and you would not be locked out
from the server. Installation will continue.
Once the installation of Service Pack 1 is completed,
click on the Finish button
You will be asked to restart the ISA Server machine in
order to complete the installation. Click Yes to restart
the machine. Of course, the moment your server reboots, you will be disconnected from the remote desktop
connection.
Give the server few minutes and
then connect to it remotely again, and enjoy the new
features of ISA Server 2006 SP1
To have a detailed review of the new features provided by ISA
Server 2006 Service Pack 1, then check the ISA Server Team blog site and Thomas
Shinder article that are available below in the Related Articles section.
Summary
If you intend to install Service Pack 1 for ISA Server 2006
remotely, then go ahead. I have tried it on a multiple of installation and I was
neither disconnected from the remote desktop session nor locked out of the
server when the related services for ISA Server were stopped. Once the
installation is completed, you will be asked to restart the machine.
