Our ISA 2004 server got screwed up and from my previous experience I'd found that setting up a new one and importing the settings is easier than troubleshooting one. So while my colleague worked on troubleshooting the existing one, I put up a new server with ISA 2006 ( a FORCED upgrade ;) )
and tried importing the old settings to the new server.
I'd exported the configuration of the ISA 2004 server to an xml file some time back so that came in handy today. But while importing, it prompted for a password. I don't remember ever providing a password for the exported xml. I tried my usual ones but it was all in vain. I tried deleting the password line in the xml file.It didn't work. Finally after going through some forums etc. I figured out that the best way was to export the config of the new ISA 2006 to a new file, open the new and old xml files in an xml editor and identify the Array and Enterprise sections. Copy over the two sections from the old config to the newly exported file. Save it and import the configurations from the new xml file. You should have all the settings and rules of the old server working.
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