As of early AM June 28th 2012, there have been many reports of TMG services stopping unexpectedly. We are primarily seeing the issues in an SSL Publishing scenario. You may expect to see the following in the Application Event Logs coinciding with the service stopping: Source: Service Control Manager Event ID: 7034 Level: Error…
Year: 2012
Newly added Network adapter not showing up in RRAS with Forefront TMG
Recently I came across a situation where one of our customers using Forefront TMG could not add a static route in RRAS based on a newly added network adapter. In this post, I will describe the steps required to get the adapter available in RRAS. Symptom After adding a new network adapter (called LAN2…
Authentication failure while trying to access a website through TMG as forward proxy
This post is about an issue I came across while working on a case and thought of sharing with all. It was not a straight forward issue; well a lot of them are not! J , Issue was with a certain website hosted on an external web server, when users in the internal network…
Moving from Eval to RTM: The steps you need to take in any TMG environment.
Hello All! It’s Brett Crane from the Forefront Edge team here at Microsoft. I’ve noticed there have been a few questions regarding documentation on the best way to go from an Evaluation Version of TMG to the RTM version. I thought I would take a few moments to cover some scenarios in upgrading between…
Authentication Issues while Using LDAPS authentication on ISA (Internet Security and Acceleration Server) 2006
Introduction: It is a very common scenario where we use LDAP authentication for publishing web sites on ISA. We have seen some issues with LDAPS authentication when there are some Certificates on the ISA server which have both Client and Server Authentication Enabled in the “Enhanced Key Usage” section under “Details” Tab. Scenario: We…
TMG SP2 Rollup 2 available
We’d like to advise that Rollup 2 for TMG SP2 is now available. TMG SP2 Rollup 2 can be downloaded here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2689195 Please see KB for details of the fixes included in this rollup. The Build Number is: 7.0.9193.540 Thank you
TMG 2010 – FBA, troubleshooting the change password feature
When we are publishing OWA, or every web service through TMG and we are willing to make use of FBA we have the chance to change our password through the FBA web form. However this step is not always as straightforward as it seems and there are some possible pitfalls in the configuration on the…
URL Filtering and Blocked URL requests on the Dashboard
From time to time we come across the question why are the values of the Blocked URL requests at URL Filtering increasing on the dashboard, although the URL Filtering feature is disabled. In this post I would like to explain, what exactly we can see there. The first value represents the number of the denied…
On Forefront TMG(Threat Management Gateway) 2010 server, Reports are being generated, but the email is not sent
Introduction: When configuring TMG Reports to run at a Scheduled time, you can also configure it to send an email once the Report is generated. This can be useful for administrators to know that the reports have run and to let other people know that the reports are available. In this case the Reports…
Issue with TMG remote SQL logging
We recently received a case from a customer reporting that the TMG log data were not being properly stored in a remote SQL database but was accumulated in the Large Logging Queue (LLQ). The LLQ is an improvement added in TMG, particularly useful in scenarios where logging to a remote SQL Server is involved. This…