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Monday, June 29, 2009 1:45 PM

TMG SCOM-Pack – Monitor TMG with System Center 2007 R2

The “one stop shop” is a leading concept for a monitoring program like SCOM. When we looked for a monitoring program for testing TMG servers internally we decided to explore MS system center 2007 R2 for this purpose, knowing that the Forefront TMG product
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Sunday, June 28, 2009 3:29 PM

Configuring Network Inspection System (NIS)

Network Inspection System (NIS) , the vulnerability signature component of TMG Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), comes with a pre-defined recommended policy out of the box – this is the recommended configuration for NIS . Nevertheless, NIS supports granular
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:00 PM

Understand duplicate authentication prompts ISA 2006 publishing MOSS using FBA

When you're publishing your MOSS/Sharepoint server with ISA 2006 using the ISA Form Based Authentication (FBA), you may see that your users are complaining about duplicate authentication prompts. This may happen when your users are opening Office documents.
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Monday, June 22, 2009 10:47 PM

ISA Integrated NLB - Multicast with IGMP… ISA “blocks” IGMP packets

Introduction After configuring ISA Integrated NLB to use multicast with IGMP, you may see blocked IGMP packets between your ISA array members. The ISA nodes don't need these packets to work properly, and it's ok when they are blocked by the Firewall Engine.
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Friday, June 19, 2009 4:40 AM

Bing Safe Search, ISA Server and Forefront TMG

Introduction With the release of Microsoft’s new search portal (AKA decision engine), the Bing team has offered a couple of methods by which you can filter out unwanted content; generally classified as “explicit”. Unfortunately, the first method outlined
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:02 AM

How to exclude specific computers from URL Filtering?

I have seen this question a few times on both  internal and external lists so I figured I would write a quick blog on this. Forefront TMG Beta3 URL filtering feature allows you to create rules that will block or allow traffic based upon the categorization
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:59 AM

Introducing Forefront Network Inspection System (NIS) in TMG Beta 3 release

You may have had the opportunity to experiment with NIS when it was first released with TMG Beta 2 and ich provies preliminary insights into the new technology provided technology preview of the new Network Inspection System. NIS is a protocol decode-based
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Friday, June 12, 2009 5:50 PM

Troubleshooting Authentication Issues in ISA Server Using Net Logon Logging

Background: I recently had a case where web proxy clients were randomly being prompted for credentials when going to the Internet through ISA Server 2006. Even after entering the proper credentials they were not able to get to the Internet. This particular
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:48 PM

URL Filtering is Here!

Quick Introduction Hi Everyone, We are proud to introduce as part of Forefront TMG Beta3 one of the key elements in the Secure Web Gateway (SWG) role of Forefront TMG – URL Filtering. URL Filtering allows controlling end-user access to Web sites, protecting
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 8:08 PM

Forefront TMG Beta 3 is Released

Hi Everyone: Our third and final planned beta is upon us and I am proud to announce that Forefront TMG Beta 3 is not only feature complete, but it is publicly available for everyone to download . This is an important milestone for the team as we are for
Posted by isablog | 10 Comments
Thursday, June 04, 2009 5:02 PM

FWC Parser for Netmon 3.3 on CodePlex

Anyone who has spent any time at all with ISA Server or Forefront TMG has found themselves needing to evaluate the network traffic generated by the ISA Server Firewall client (TMG client for Forefront TMG). The problem with that effort is that none of
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:24 AM

ISA BPA 7 and Forefront TMG for Windows Essential Business Server

If you are running Forefront TMG for Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) and you have problems you may find it useful to use the ISA Best Practices Analyzer version 7 (announced earlier in the blog post http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/05/06/announcing-the-availability-of-isa-tmg-best-practices-analyzer-version-7.aspx
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