So you want to ensure that you have full access to ISA before, during and after patching for 09-016 (assuming you don’t have a box with more than 4 procs) http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2009/04/20/ms09-012-and-isa-server-standard-edition-14109-failures.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-016.mspx Listen to this for the reason you want to add a policy for remote management: Inside SBS Episode #12 - The ISA Server Meltdown | Odeo: Search, Discover and Share Digital Media from Millions of Audio and Video Clips: http://odeo.com/episodes/538067-Inside-SBS-Episode-12-The-ISA-Server-Meltdown Mark, Damian, Justin, Chris on ISA. 8:53 minutes in Justin talks about it.