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 has long been part of the Office 365 solution, will be named Exchange Online Protection.
- In response to customer demand, we are adding basic antimalware protection to Exchange Server 2013. This protection can be easily turned off, replaced, or paired with other services (like Exchange Online Protection) to provide a layered defense.
- We are discontinuing any further releases of the following Forefront-branded solutions:
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- Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE)
- Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP)
- Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS)
- Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG)
- Forefront Threat Management Gateway Web Protection Services (TMG WPS)
For all the details please see the following: http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/09/12/important-changes-to-forefront-product-roadmaps.aspx
J.C. Hornbeck | Knowledge Engineer | Management and Security Division
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Comments
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
We planned to purchase additional TMG for branches and what now? Buy a product that will not evolve? And where and how to migrate from the well-established infrastructure(VPN/Exchange/SPoint/etc.)? I don't understand this attitude towards customers.Anonymous
January 01, 2003
What will be the new architecture of enterprise network without TMG and FPE? What and where is a migration map to?Anonymous
September 12, 2012
Are there plans for TMG2013 or other, future, TMG products or is TMG being discontinued altogether?Anonymous
September 12, 2012
Could someone please provide a suggested migration map of the capabilities built into TMG for existing customers? Eg reverse web publishing -> MS UAG, boundary firewall -> built-in OS firewalls or third party paroduct, etc.Anonymous
September 12, 2012
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September 13, 2012
Don't like to year that. However I like TMG2010 and FPE2010 and we use several licenced products in our company...Anonymous
September 13, 2012
We really need migration map for TMG.Anonymous
September 13, 2012
It's moments like this where Microsoft's actions are so confusing and don't add up. From the announcement: We are discontinuing any further releases of the following Forefront-branded solutions: Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) Forefront Threat Management Gateway Web Protection Services (TMG WPS) and... "It is important to note that there are no significant changes to the Forefront Identity Manager or Forefront Unified Access Gateway roadmaps. These solutions continue to be actively developed. Forefront UAG 2010 SP2 was released in August 2012 and Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 was release in June 2012. " In summary they are dropping TMG and keeping UAG, but.... UAG uses TMG... “By default, Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) is installing during Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Setup. Forefront TMG is installed as a complete product, and is not modified to run on a Forefront UAG server.” -technet.microsoft.com/.../ee522953.aspx Using this logic TMG continues under the UAG roadmap... or the Forefront Product Teams don't have a grasp on their own products.Anonymous
September 13, 2012
Another baited hook for Microsoft users. Keep this up MS, and will be forced to leave you.Anonymous
September 13, 2012
stupid thing to drop TMGAnonymous
September 14, 2012
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September 14, 2012
What should our customers with Full-Featured Deployments (incl. 3rd-Party ISAPI-Solutions) and Firewall-Client/-Service (THE big advantage for transparent, authenticated outbound access for tcp/udp-Connection) migrate to ? I CAN´T BELIEVE that all the features and techniques that TMG provides play no role in your shiny new On-Premises-Cloud-world .... Maybe it would be a good idea to provide a migration path / evolutionary road FIRST and then discontinue / cancel core products in such an important area - SECURITY ! rgds, RobertAnonymous
September 14, 2012
Sadly, that's the proof of often heard critics: you can't do IT-Security. Shame on you in discontinuing this absolutely great product! May the cloud rain no $ on you. :-(Anonymous
September 14, 2012
It a shame that TMG is killed.Anonymous
September 14, 2012
So: Can we expect the quality of the web reputation service queries to start getting worse and worse, or is this service still being used in other MS products that will continue? This whole thing is a shame, as we switched off of Websense not long ago, because the filtering in TMG was good enough for our needs.Anonymous
September 14, 2012
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September 16, 2012
So what happens to the SA I have been paying on Forefront TMG? Do I get a different product that doesn't do what I need it do or is there a refund cheque in the mail?Anonymous
September 16, 2012
It's sad that they are killing this product. I have using it as our go to firewall for 8 years now. I'm happy with what it does. Now I'm looking at Cisco ASA for my firewall needs and Websense for filtering. In other words $$$$Anonymous
September 17, 2012
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September 25, 2012
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September 26, 2012
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October 02, 2012
You know what this means to me? FREE TMG FOR MY CUSTOMERS!!!! YAY!!!!Anonymous
October 04, 2012
Maybe Microsoft are planing to buy someone else in this space....Anonymous
October 04, 2012
Almost three weeks have passed since Microsoft dropped this news on their "Server & Cloud Blog". This news only is bad enough. But this silence since then is even worse, I do not know what to tell my customers. Please name us an alternative to do forwarding proxy with integrated authentication (just to name one feature) Please!Anonymous
October 11, 2012
..and now it's almost four weeks. Dropping news like that and then not following up on legitimate questions from real customers just shows a lack of respect. Come on Microsoft, can you please elaborate on your plans? Will some of the TMG features be picked up by UAG? Will there be some form of compensation for SA customers now that the value of the SA subscription is lowered?Anonymous
October 14, 2012
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October 16, 2012
Can Microsoft please advise its customers how they are supposed to tackle the problems that discontinuing TMG will have for future deployments. We deploy a large amount of infrastructures to schools and use TMG to publish OWA and SharePoint externally rather than publishing the CAS and SPFE servers directly. How would Microsoft propose that we get around this massive problem without having to increase costs substantially for our customers?Anonymous
November 13, 2012
the decision to eliminate tmg is really stupid was a great product for firewalls, proxies, etc.. I tested UAG and is a product ridiculous buggyAnonymous
November 20, 2012
MICROSOFT - Why has no one replied to the many comments on this. What is the suggested road map/path for people to take who use or were going to use TMG?Anonymous
February 12, 2013
We have been using Forefront TMG / ISA since it was released several years back with great success, and are happy to report that we've had no major security incidents on our network. for the past 12 years. Discovering yesterday that the product has been discontinued (when I went to renew our VLA for malware filter) with no roadmap is of great stress on our non-profit agency's limited budget. We are now facing not only expensive security consulting but also a re-design of our entire infrastructure wrapped our Forefront TMG publishing rules. We have been 99% Microsoft for over a decade and are not a happy customer.Anonymous
April 10, 2013
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April 14, 2014
Does anyone in the product group or anyone from Microsoft can answer that will change in roadmapie security products.
Will there be a successor TMG?? .... So really the whole point of rewriting the TCP stack in WIN 2012 Server R2Anonymous
August 29, 2014
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June 07, 2016
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Enterprise Edition Дата начала жизненного цикла 17.10.2006 так конечно дата окончания расширенной поддержки 10.01.2017.Сделайте хотя бы дату окончания расширенной поддержки Forefront продукта в 2021 году:)