ITunes and ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2
Prior to SP2, if a requested destination name was in the list, it was accessed directly. With SP2 - a requested name in the list is accessed directly, unless IP addresses are included in the list. In that case, an attempt is made to resolve the site name to an IP address. Access is direct only if the resolved IP address is found in the list.
There have been lots of questions from customers on how to make ITunes work after applying ISA Server Service Pack 2.
First of all, some background on what’s happening. A server might return a compressed response (with an "Content-Encoding: gzip "HTTP header) even though ISA Server did not specifically request compressed data. For security reasons, if the ISA Server compression settings are not enabled to Request compressed HTTP content from servers, then ISA Server will deny the response.
This is what’s happening with ITunes.
The good news: the music can go on…You can configure ISA Server so that ITunes will work. Here’s how:
- On the General node, click Define HTTP Compression Preferences.
- On the Settings tab, add a computer set that includes the IP address of the site to the list.
- Select the site and click Set Compression.
- Enable Request compressed HTTP content from servers.
Let the music play!
Adina Hagege
ISA Server Product Team
Comments
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
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April 03, 2006
While I appreciate the help, I don’t under stand step 2 ‘add the site to the list’. Can you be more specific? Thanks RussellAnonymous
April 10, 2006
Step 2 doesn't make sense - when you click Add, you get the dialog to add a new Network or Computer Set. How do I add a site?Anonymous
April 10, 2006
Apologies for being unclear--I'll update the entry, which should read "add a computer set that includes the IP address of the site to the list."Anonymous
April 11, 2006
If you start logging then access iTunes you get several IP addresses. Do you know what IP ranges are necessary? Since you are bloging on setting up iTunes in ISA SP2 can you expand on step 2. ThanksAnonymous
April 13, 2006
Exactly, is there a list of iTunes iP addresses. Surely everyone has to enter the same addresses and could list them here?
Thank youAnonymous
April 18, 2006
Use the logging tab to find out. However these are the ones i use: 17.250.236.65, 69.44.123.19, 69.44.123.24, 69.44.123.26Anonymous
April 24, 2006
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May 31, 2006
Best of the text i read about a problem.Anonymous
June 02, 2006
We are wellocme to it's configuration.Anonymous
June 06, 2006
Wellcome to the real world.Anonymous
October 25, 2006
More IP addresses: 194.109.192.22 and 194.109.192.7Anonymous
February 20, 2007
I have added all the IP addresses as instructed. I still can't get iTunes store to work. What am I missing?Anonymous
May 10, 2007
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