Hello Community: I have not been posting as much directly here on the technical blog as the rest of the team. I hope you are enjoying the wave of technical content that is now coming out about the upcoming TMG release. This was based on direct feedback and in response to your demand. Let us…
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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 hopefully be sharing some of their early success stories. We are putting the…
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 cycle for the upcoming release candidate (RC) version. …
An Inside View: The Road From Beta to RTM
Hello Community: I have not blogged in a while, so I thought I would provide some insights on what the team has been busy with since releasing Beta 3 in June. First, we have released a number of updates to NIS through Microsoft Update, our Beta 3 tools and SDK and also updates on…
Office Web Components Advisory, ISA Server and Forefront TMG
Hello Community: I would like to clarify some points for you regarding the security advisory that was released on 13 July. Microsoft Security Advisory 937432 provides information about a vulnerability in Office Web Components (OWC) and links to a mechanism to help mitigate this vulnerability. As many customers have noticed, ISA Server 2004 and ISA…
MS09-031: ISA Server 2006 FBA and RADIUS OTP Bulletin
Hello Community: I wanted to reach out and provide some detail on the bulletin that was released today. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-031 addresses a security vulnerability in ISA Server 2006 that can allow a remote unauthenticated user to access restricted resources in certain cases. We wanted to explain what that configuration was, how the vulnerability…
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…