In this interview with Mike Chan, I help clarify when you might want to utilize Forefront Protection for Exchange versus Forefront Online Protection for Exchange – or use both. Most of the video is spent white boarding out how things work between FPE / FOPE and Exchange 2010’s security.

With the launch of the 1 st public beta for Forefront Stirling on April 8 th , I thought it would be relevant to do a post this week on it. This release proves that the Stirling vision scenario in my previous blog article is becoming a reality. “Stirling” seems to be thrown around quite a bit and can...

Would you like to learn about or use Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, or the next version of Forefront Edge? If you're based in USA and 'fit the bill', I'll get you an invite to the IT Pro Momentum portal. If you're in Ireland - contact Dave Northey . You can profile a project which uses one of...

That's right it's Stirling, not Sterling like silver. I'll cover the background behind the name perhaps in an interview with the product team. Forefront is categorized into three categories: Client, Server, and Edge. Currently, the client and server forefront products have two separate management...

In addition to centrally managing Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint and Microsoft Antigen e-mail security products, the Beta 2 release will include new features that enable customers to: · Use SQL Server 2005 for quarantine and reporting · Provide redundancy...

What is not obvious is the fact that the IAG appliance has the full edition of 2006 ISA standard edition running on it. I figured that I should do this as a follow up to my ISA vs IAG post - as I failed to mention it there. So why should I even buy ISA 2006 instead of IAG you might ask? If you...

On May 21st, we announced IAG's SP1 - RTM expected around this August. I'll give a summary of the new features coming out with SP1: Vista Client support Details : · Both online and offline installation / updates / removal of Download Manager · Detection of multiple legacy client-security...

Microsoft's Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 just released this February. It is a secure remote access gateway that provides SSL-based application access and protection. So what are some of the cool things that IAG allows you to do? NOTE : All of the items below you can do securely from an...

If you read the only two places where ISA is compared to IAG , it doesn't really give a simple and clear comparison. I hope to do so now in this post. Please post comments if you find other comparison information out there. The two comparisons I found are: Secure Remote Access IAG Frequently Asked...

Confused yet? I know that I was when I first started hearing this term Forefront... Is "Forefront" just a client/server security product or something else? Forefront simply is a name that MS is branding onto our security related products. Forefront is divided into three categories of client, server...