How to export ISA Server 2004 rules to excel 2007

After a very long time I am back with another tip for my readers.The common practice done by most system administrators is to document the configurations and final solutions of anything performed by them for their future use and reference. So here I am going to explain how to export ISA Server 2004 Firewall policies into excel 2007.
  
Applications involved: 

 • ISA Server 2004
 • Windows 7 on client side {As I have done it on windows 7}
 • Excel 2007
 • ISA2XLSV2.hta {Use to read rules from xml file}

Procedure: 

Step # 1: Move on to Server Machine on which ISA Server 2004 is installed
Step # 2: Now open ISA Server Management Console
Step # 3: Expend the server
Step # 4: Select Firewall policy
Step # 5: Right click on “Firewall policy” and select Export



Step # 6: Now save the file on your desired place. This will export all the group policies into an xml file.
Step # 7: Here we require tool named ISAInfo2XLS.hta which can be downloaded from Here 
Step # 8: Now import your xml file in this tool
Step # 9: Expend “Firewall Policy” tab and click on “Array Rules”
Step # 10: Copy all the data from right pane and past it into a text file.
Step # 11: Now open ms excel and press open select file type to “All Files” and now locate your text file press ok
Step # 12: It will run automatically run “Text Import Wizard” from here select “Delimited” and press next

 

Step # 13: On this screen select others and type a pipe sign from keyboard “ | ” looks like this and press next

 

Step # 14: On next screen just press “Finish”. It will generate your desired file.
Step # 15: Now you have to format it a bit as per your requirement.

So there you go. Now you have all firewall policies in excel format {You can do the same for all kind of ISA server policies like system policies etc}. Hope you all find it useful for documenting the firewall or other ISA server policies.