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Cannot Browse a HTTPs Site Published by ISA Server 2006 without using TLS 1.0 on Internet Explorer

1. Problem This week I got a really interesting collaboration call from Michael Hunter from Directory Services Team where customer was having problem to access a HTTPS site published through ISA Server 2006 using a certificate issued by an internal CA.
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Forefront TMG Beta 2: Virtualization Ready

As Forefront TMG Beta 2 starts to really make its rounds, we hear from many of the community: “What about virtualization? Will TMG be virtualization ready? Can we run as a VHD now? Can TMG be used as a virtual security solution in my data center?” My
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AD Marker method used for automatic detection for Firewall clients

ForeFront TMG Beta 2 introduces AD (Active Directory) Marker as the new method used for automatic detection of the location of the server for Firewall clients. If AD Marker is not deployed, then the Firewall client will fall back to DHCP and DNS. This
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ISA Server Build Numbers

Did you ever wonder how to find out which Hotfix/Service Pack Level your ISA Server is currently running on? In ISA Server 2004/2006 simply open an MMC on the ISA Server and Open Help -> About Microsoft ISA Server. Here you'll see the Version Number
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Caching Comments from Yahoo's Mark Nottingham

I recently had the good fortune to collaborate with Mark Nottingham from Yahoo regarding some caching problems for some of their pages. Mark has written a fine summation of the problem and offers a functional solution (gotta love those functional solutions)
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How-to get NLB to work with Forefront TMG Beta2 when running in Hyper-V.

If you are running your Forefront TMG servers as Windows 2008 Hyper-V guests and you have enabled NLB in TMG, you may have noticed that the NLB cluster nodes fail to converge. There is a known issue with Unicast NLB and Hyper-V that affects ISA 2006 and
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Error installing a replica of ISA Server 2006 CSS

1. Introduction When you attempt to install a replica CSS, you may encounter the following error message: Figure 1 – Error while installing ISA Server 2006 CSS.in replica mode When ISA Server 2006 Setup displays the “Setup failed to start the configuration
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Keeping High Availability with Forefront TMG’s ISP Redundancy Feature

Overview Today, more and more businesses rely on their Internet Service Providers link (or ISP) to handle their outside Internet world communications. Sending emails, browsing the web and any other web related actions are essential business infrastructure

Forefront TMG Beta 2: 1 Week Later

Hi ISA/TMG community: I wanted to drop a quick note to the community this weekend and thank everyone for the overwhelmingly positive response and interest in Beta 2. We have been extremely excited by the extremely large number of downloads and feedback
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Forefront TMG Beta 2 is Released

Hi Everyone: I wanted to publish a follow-on to Jim's enthusiastic post about our public beta. We have reached an important and critical milestone in the release of Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG), our comprehensive network protection solution.

Forefront Threat Management Gateway Public Beta Available For Download

A new day in Forefront Edge History is upon us! Threat Management Gateway Public Beta is available for your downloading and testing pleasure. Please be sure to read the system requirements, release notes and deployment guide. As with any Beta, there are
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WPAD for ISA Server and Windows Media Proxy Server

Introduction Since the release of Windows Server 2008 Streaming Media Services , many ISA admins have wondered how they could combine the two to control the routing of streaming content for their users. There are generally two goals for this configuration:
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Another blog about KCD: Tips and Tricks on Kerberos and Delegation (ISA2006):

Kerberos has always been a big pain when people are not used to configuring it. But with a little patience and some clear concepts, it will have no secrets for you! Let’s start from the start Kerberos is based on tickets to perform authentication. When
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How to enable multicast routing with ISA Server

This blog entry will talk about how you can enable multicast traffic with ISA Server. You face a scenario where you have multicast capable applications in different subnets which are isolated by an ISA Server and you need to allow the multicast traffic
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