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 answer to all of those questions: “You bet…
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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 is to enable backward compatibility and allows you to choose. Note…
ISA/TMG Server Build Numbers
(last update 29/11/2013 by Philipp Sand) Did you ever wonder how to find out which Hotfix/Service Pack Level your ISA/TMG Server is currently running on? In ISA Server 2004/2006 or TMG simply open an MMC on the ISA/TMG Server and Open Help -> About Microsoft ISA/TMG Server. Here you'll see the Version Number of your…
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) for scenarios where a proxy is caching something the web site admins don’t want cached. …
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 agent” message, this means that the Microsoft ISA Server Storage…
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 services that are only available as long the ISP line is up and running. Keeping a stable, available…
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 we have been receiving from the community. As great as Beta 2 is,…
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. For those of you catching up on the TMG line, Forefront TMG is the future version of…
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 some “gotchas” and you’re better off to know how to deal with them before you…
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: 1. limit streaming content to approved sources 2. limit the bandwidth consumed by this traffic…