TMG Logging to LLQ

One of the problems causing TMG to log to LLQ instead of the database is the presence of orphaned databases in the local SQL Server instance. In other words you may have some databases that are registered on the local SQL Server but the corresponding .mdf and .ldf files are missing from the disk. This…


Important Information Regarding Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps

Today, as a result of our effort to better align security and protection solutions with the workloads and applications they protect, Microsoft is announcing changes to the roadmaps of some of the security solutions made available under the Forefront brand. As part of this effort, the next release of Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, which…


Sent Items delayed when publishing Outlook Anywhere through TMG

  Problem When publishing Exchange 2010 “Outlook Anywhere” via TMG 2010, you may find that some of your external Outlook users may intermittently experience issues sending email. They may report, when sending a new email, that the email may get “stuck” in the Outbox folder. The users may find that the email will be sent…


An enterprise node is incorrectly added in the Forefront TMG 2010 MMC after you run repair on Forefront TMG 2010 SP1 Update 1

Microsoft’s own Junaid Jan (Security Support Escalation Engineer – Forefront Edge Team) recently wrote a great article in our TechNet Wiki about an issue where an enterprise node is incorrectly added in the Forefront TMG 2010 management console after you run a repair on Forefront TMG 2010 SP1 Update 1. When this happens, you won’t…


FIX: The Forefront Threat Management Gateway Firewall service (Wspsrv.exe) may crash frequently for a published website secured by SSL after you install Service Pack 2

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published recently. This one talks about a fix for an issue where the TMG 2010 firewall service crashes frequently and logs an Event ID 14057. ===== Symptoms Consider the following scenario: You install Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010. You use Forefront Threat…


Troubleshooting why ISA server does not cache the response of a web server

Consider a scenario where an ISA administrator wants to cache a particular website but he is not able to cache it. He has created rule to cache the rule and everything about the rule and the caching is configured properly, however responses from the web server are not being cached by the ISA server. What’s…


Troubleshooting "The operation failed 0x80000400 " while joining TMG server to an EMS Array

I was looking through our TechNet Wiki this morning and came across a great article that written by our very own Junaid Jan, Support Escalation Engineer on our Forefront Edge Team. In it, he talks about troubleshooting an issue where you’re getting error " The operation failed 0x80000400 " while joining a Microsoft Forefront Threat…


Getting error 12202 intermittently (Authentication Failure) while accessing published resources (SharePoint/Exchange) through TMG 2010

  I was working on a case where we were seeing an intermittent failure with authentication for the websites (Exchange / Sharepoint ) that were published on TMG Server. The error generated was: 12202 The Forefront TMG denied the specified Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Environment: TMG 2010 , Domain Joined (2003 and 2008 Domain Controllers)…


Support Tip: Site to site IPSEC tunnel Between TMG 2010 on VMware and Cisco

Having trouble configuring a VPN tunnel between Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG 2010) and a Cisco device? If so, Microsoft’s own Suraj Singh might be able to help you out. He has a great article over in our TechNet Wiki about an issue like this that he’s run across before and what he…


TMG services will not start and Event ID 21235 is logged

  Here’s some info on an interesting support issue I worked the other day. If you happen to run into this one day, maybe this will help you get it resolved. Issue: Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) services do not start. To start the services,  Customer had  to clear NLB and reconfigure NLB every…