This post is about an issue that might occur after you install Forefront TMG 2010 SP1 and Reports start to show blank result. When this happens, the following Alert appears on TMG console: The daily summaries could not be summarized into a monthly summary for "07/2010". This may cause the report for this period to…
Year: 2010
Expect the unexpected… Failed Connection 995 and 64 with SSL Traffic
When speaking with customers, we hear a lot of questions around “unexpected” errors like “Failed Connection Error 995 Operation Aborted” and “Failed Connection Error 64 Net name Deleted” in the ISA/TMG logs. The main concern here is always if these errors are real errors and how to prevent them. These errors occur most of the…
Forefront TMG/UAG Help Wanted at Microsoft in Reading, UK and Munich, Germany
The Microsoft TMG/UAG Server support teams in Reading and Munich are looking to hire a Full Time Employee. If you’d be interested to come and work with us and learn more about TMG/UAG internals than you probably would anywhere else in the world (apart from Redmond maybe), then this might be the job for you….
Unable to download files through Forefront TMG 2010 when Malware Inspection is Enabled
1. Introduction Enhanced Malware Protection (EMP) is the mechanism that Forefront TMG uses to block malware coming through Web access. EMP provides a single point of Malware scanning that ensures all downloaded files are scanned with latest malware definitions. In summary the scanning process occurs in the following manner: HTTP traffic is intercepted by a…
New Forefront TMG Books
Exciting times in the world of Forefront TMG literature! In English: Deploying Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway by Yuri Diogenes and Dr. Tom Shinder, which can be preordered here. In German: Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway – Das Handbuch von Marc Grote, Christian Gröbner, und Dieter Rauscher, which can be ordered here. In Hungarian: A…
New in Forefront TMG Update 1: SafeSearch Enforcement
Forefront TMG can now automatically block adult text, images, and videos from search results by major web search engines. The same SafeSearch feature that users can activate in their browsers can now be enforced on Forefront TMG, and applied to groups of users or to the entire organization. When SafeSearch is enabled on Forefront TMG,…
New in Forefront TMG Update 1: Multiple URL Categories
When Forefront TMG queries MRS for a URL categorization, the result may include multiple categories (for example, a site can be categorized as both a Portal and Web Mail site). By default Forefront TMG uses the most significant category (otherwise known as the primary category) according to the category precedence list. In Forefront TMG Update…
Software Update 1 for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service Pack 1 now available for download
We are happy to announce the availability of Software Update 1 for Microsoft Forefront TMG SP1. This update contains the following enhancements: • SafeSearch Enforcement. Forefront TMG can enforce blocking adult text, images and videos from search results by popular search engines. SafeSearch can be enforced on specific groups or to the entire organization….
Valuable mappings for TMG logging into an external database
After you configure TMG to log into a SQL database, you may have noticed, that some logging fields like Malware Inspection Reason, IPS Scan result or URL Category, do not contain the string that can see in the live logging or in the integrated TMG Reports (see screenshot below), but just a number. TMG only…
Forefront TMG 2010 SDK Documentation
The Forefront TMG SDK documentation is live on MSDN. This is the most up-to-date release of the documentation, and includes a linked list of New COM Elements in Forefront TMG. You can download the SDK here. Nathan Bigman, Content Publishing Manager