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September 2009 - Posts

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:11 PM

Forefront TMG introduces the Preparation Tool to make setup easier

How many times has this happened to you? You are ready to install an application, you click on setup.exe, but instead of the software installing, it announces that it can’t continue until you install a prerequisite. Personally, I always wondered: if the
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 1:22 PM

Network Load Balancing (NLB) configuration settings in Forefront TMG: to clear or not to clear?

Introduction Network Load Balancing integration is one of the features that existed in the previous version of Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG), Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006. The concept of this functionality is described
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:56 AM

The Momentum is Building for TMG RTM

Hello Community: The momentum is building around the final phases of this release as we work towards our launch in Berlin at TechEd Europe in November. Many of our partners will also be showcasing their products for TMG and many of our customers will
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:17 PM

Forefront TMG User Experience: The Navigation Tree

Forefront TMG provides a single-level navigation tree to access the features and options for configuring and monitoring your Forefront TMG servers. When you navigate to a node in the tree, the toolbar, results pane, tasks pane, and right-click menus provide
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:32 PM

Forefront TMG and Windows® 7 DirectAccess

Introduction DirectAccess is a new feature in the Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating systems that gives users the experience of being seamlessly connected to their corporate network any time they have Internet access. With DirectAccess,
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:26 PM

Forefront TMG User Experience: UI Improvements

The first time you launch Forefront TMG, you’ll notice the familiar Microsoft Management Console (MMC), with its navigation tree on the left, the results pane in the mid-section, and the tasks pane on the right. If you’re familiar with ISA Server, you’ll
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:34 AM

ISA CSS and Arrays in a Nutshell

There still seems to be some confusion about what an ISA Array is. I still see some very basic questions about ISA arrays and the CSS. First, ISA arrays have been around since ISA 2000 Enterprise Edition but the CSS was new with ISA 2004 Enterprise Edition.
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Monday, September 14, 2009 7:37 AM

The Road to RC Needs Telemetry

Hello Community: I wanted to provide an update to everyone where we are at with the upcoming release and also put out a call to action for some help. First of all, an update on the product release. We have just internally completed our escrow test pass
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Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:47 AM

Forefront TMG Network Inspection System Gets Its First 0-Day Signature Release

When we started developing the Network Inspection System (NIS) technology, we faced many challenges typical for an engineering project; can we meet our performance requirements for an inline system? Will our design be robust and flexible enough to address
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:36 PM

Behavioral Change on IE7 can affect Outbound access through ISA Server 2006 that is using Redirect on a Deny Rule

1. Introduction It is very common to firewall administrators to have deny rules to block traffic to some destination and sometimes instead of just exposing an error page to the end user they prefer to redirect the end user to a custom and friendlier page.
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Monday, September 07, 2009 12:37 PM

TMG Network Inspection System (NIS) – “Attention Required” Feature

Network Inspection System (NIS) , the vulnerability signature component of TMG’s Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), offers automatic and manual flagging of specific NIS signatures in TMG UI for future reference. Similar to important or unread emails flagging
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Monday, September 07, 2009 9:35 AM

Change Tracking in TMG

Change Tracking is a feature which keeps a log of TMG configuration changes. It was first introduced in ISA2006 SP1, and now it's included in TMG as well. If you're not familiar with it, you can read about it in the ISA2006 SP1 document , or in the related
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Monday, September 07, 2009 8:09 AM

Web Publishing Test Button and KCD in TMG

Background The full guide on how to configure ISA Server Firewalls (same goes for Forefront TMG) to support user certificate authentication using Kerberos Constrained Delegation is available in Tom Shinder's manual Part 1 and Part 2 . This article comes
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:34 PM

Time Matters - When ISA Server is affected by Windows Time settings

1. Introduction As the title of this post suggests, this is all about time and keeping systems in sync. Many administrators think that time just matters if Kerberos is somehow involved in the deployment, which is not true. This post will describe two
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