Setting up ISA 2006 in a Lab

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Im trying figure out setting up ISA 2006 in a lab for testing purposes, eventually I want ISA to filter all HTTP, control incoming/outgoing VPNS to remote sites and publish OWA and SPS.

We have two remote sites and want to create a trust between the domains, there will be an ISA 2006 Server at each site as well as a DC, the GC will be stored on all 3 Domain Controllers

Now I need some help setting this up in a Testing enviroment, how would I go about it, My minds gone blank!!
 
Virtual Machines?
I find using VM's particularly useful for testing new configurations.
You'll probably need a pretty powerful machine to cope with all that though.
Best bet is probably token ring 3 machines, 1 for each site and run VM's on each to represent the servers at each location.

HTH
 
you say that, I've managed to aquire a copy of VMware ESX server, but how can you simulate on a VM the internet between the ISA servers???
 
You just connect the external network connections on each Virtual ISA server to the same virtual network. Obviously this won't have the same kind of lag that you will experience on the internet, but you will be able to set up site to site VPNs and things like that.
 
wondered if you could help with another scenario, I have 1 dc say 444.com and I want to add another DC but not a replica dc, I want a new domain tree within the exisiting forest so all the trusts are there etc

now when I try to do this through dc promo, it fails to find an active directory controller in a existing forest.

so Ive ran a few test..

netdiag /test:dsgetdc /d:ourdomain /v
that passed, but this fails, Now I know the problem is in dns, I just don't kno where!!

dcdiag /test:dcpromo /dnsdomain:ourfqdn /NewTree /ForestRoot:Forest_Root_Domain_DNS_Name /v

help!!
 
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