The ISA is of course a stand-alone, but you set it up to communicate with a DC through an encrypted pipe, thereby taking advantage of integration \:\)

Integration has several advantages; quotas, priority, externally available Intranets, secure application publishing, branch office gateway, single sign on, and last but not least very good per-user or group reporting etc \:\)

http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/prodinfo/features.mspx

Edited by masken (2007-01-08 03:57 PM)
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