I am happy to announce to the community that the next version of Forefront TMG Best Practices Analyzer Tool (TmgBPA version 8) has been released and is now publicly available. TmgBPA is used by TMG administrators to verify proper configuration, and...

When troubleshooting ISA Server one of the most common procedures in order to understand what is happening behind the scenes is to use the ISA Data Packager tool, which is part of the ISA Best Practices Analyzer, also known as ISABPA . This tool collects...

http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2010/01/13/forefront-tmg-2010-administrator-s-companion-sample-chapters.aspx If you didn't know, Forefront TMG 2010 is the subject of a new Administrator's Companion from Microsoft Press. This book has...

As we go through the final steps related to the release of Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG), it is our pleasure to announce the availability of the official (final) management pack (SCOM pack) for TMG. To read more about the content of this...

In this post, we discuss the hardware recommendations for Forefront TMG, based on the number of users and deployment scenario. Enabling different features on Forefront TMG carries different costs. When considering the hardware required for your deployment...

You can use Forefront TMG scripting capabilities to allow non-TMG administrators to locally override a URL (enabling advanced help-desk scenarios). Here’s a script snippet that demonstrates adding www.contoso.com/* to the Anonymizers category: set fpc...

Forefront TMG 2010 TechNet documentation is now available in 10 localized versions: · Chinese-Simplified · Chinese-Traditional · French · German · Italian · Japanese · Korean · Portuguese-Brazilian · Russian · Spanish To access the localized content based...

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