Forefront TMG Product Team Blog
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...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 05/02/2012
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...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 05/01/2012
Issue with TMG remote SQL logging
We recently received a case from a customer reporting that the TMG log data were not being properly...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 04/30/2012
Another Behavior of the TEST RULE Button in Threat Management Gateway 2010
Introduction: Recently, I worked on a case where we were publishing Exchange CAS (Client...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 04/24/2012
Mac OS Clients fail to access SSL Websites after you enable HTTPS Inspection in Forefront TMG 2010
The concept of HTTPS Inspection (referred to HTTPSi later) was covered in a previous blog article by...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 04/19/2012
TMG Event Log IDs
The following Table summarizes the Forefront TMG Event IDs. This table was put into graphs with...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 04/18/2012
NIS & Anti-Malware Info is not updated as expected in Update Center
Today I would like to describe an easy way to solve a small visualization mismatch related to the...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 04/12/2012
Solution for ISA VPN hang after applying MS11-030
We had a lots of customers reporting that after installing MS11-030 (...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 04/03/2012
CRM published through ISA/TMG : Save and new button on the form does not work properly, need to click twice on the links in the CRM page
Microsoft’s own Suraj Singh has some great info over on his blog about a couple issues you may see...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 03/19/2012
Connection owner for a Site-to-Site connection is missing in TMG
Consider the following scenario. You are running an array of more than one TMG Server 2010 and need...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 03/15/2012
KB: HTTP Redirect in Threat Management Gateway 2010 fails when the Exchange 2010 Edge role is installed
Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where HTTP...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 03/05/2012
Rock around the Remote Access Service
The story… one of our customers called in that he had just finished with the migration to TMG...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 02/06/2012
Blank User Activity Report if domain or username contains accented characters
Blank User Activity Report if domain or username contains accented characters Administrators...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 01/30/2012
TMG SP2 Rollup 1 available
We'd like to advise that Rollup 1 for TMG SP2 is now available. TMG SP2 Rollup 1 can be downloaded...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 01/12/2012
Walk-through for RSA SecurID Authentication for TMG 2010 Part 3: Configure TMG Authentication and Delegation
• Configuring Authentication on the Listener • On the Authentication tab of the Listener,...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 01/06/2012
Walk-through for RSA SecurID Authentication for TMG 2010 Part 2: TMG Array Members Preparation
Disclaimer: Many of the steps outlining the configuration of the RSA Authentication Manager v...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 01/05/2012
Walk-through for RSA SecurID Authentication for TMG 2010 Part 1: RSA Authentication Manager 7.1 Server Configuration
Disclaimer: Many of the steps outlining the configuration of the RSA Authentication Manager v...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 01/04/2012
X-flash-version header can prevent ISA/TMG from compressing contents
In this blog post I want to discuss a solution, which we provided to one of our customers....
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 12/30/2011
Switching to text file logging fails with Event ID 11003
Some days ago a customer opened a case because an ISA array was randomly refusing all the...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 12/28/2011
You cannot install a Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 service pack on branch office servers
Here’s a new KB article we published on TMG 2010. This one actually first came out a couple weeks...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 12/21/2011
L2TP VPN issues when utilizing TMG as your RRAS server and NLB is configured on your external Interfaces
Hello All! It’s Brett Crane from the Forefront Edge team here at Microsoft. I wanted to take...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 12/15/2011
Forefront TMG SP2 at Security Talk Show
Richard Hicks (Forefront MVP) was interviewed by Tom Shinder and Yuri Diogenes for their Security...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 11/21/2011
Use ISA/TMG to distribute your custom WPAD configuration file
In ISA 2006 SP1 and TMG RTM it’s possible to configure ISA/TMG to distribute your own custom...
Author: Forefront TMG Team Date: 11/16/2011
Unable to Join a TMG server to the Stand Alone Array
Introduction: In this scenario I am going to share a very unique issue which I came across...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 11/08/2011
New in SP2: Improved Error Pages
In TMG 2010 Service Pack 2, we put our focus on bug fixing, in order to improve the overall...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 10/13/2011
New in SP2: Site Activity Report
Have you ever been interested in which users visit specific sites on the Internet very often? E.g....
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 10/12/2011
New in SP2: Kerberos Authentication in Load Balanced Scenarios
In TMG 2010 Service Pack 2, we did put our focus on bug fixing, in order to improve the overall...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 10/12/2011
Forefront TMG Service Pack 2 Now Available
We are happy to announce the availability of Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 10/12/2011
Use the Power of Excel Pivot Tables to analyze attacks and session distribution
Usually we’re using tools like Network Monitor, various text file parser, Procmon, Windbg… to solve...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 10/11/2011
How to generate a certificate with subject alternative names (SAN)
When publishing services like Outlook Anywhere, OWA and Active Sync for exchange in ISA/TMG, we...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 10/09/2011
How to patch a TMG array– some thoughts on NLB high availability
One of the reasons for using an array is the availability of NLB, which is known to provide fault...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 09/16/2011
“Slow Performance” accessing CRM IFD published with ISA/TMG
In this article I want to provide a detailed view on a possible performance issue you might face,...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 08/05/2011
Understand ISA/TMG updates
The purpose of this blog post is to provide you with some interesting information about the...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 07/01/2011
Publishing SharePoint mobile for Windows Phone 7
Preface Publishing SharePoint mobile for Windows Phone 7 with UAG is easy. However, it is possible...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 05/30/2011
Exchange Content Filter settings are ignored
Symptom Consider that you have deployed Forefront TMG 2010 along with Exchange Edge and Forefront...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 05/19/2011
Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 (Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition) has passed Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL 4+)
I’m happy to announce that Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 (Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition)...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 05/11/2011
Requiring Strong Authentication Only for Specific Published Paths or Sites
Introduction Recently we’ve encountered a number of cases where customers wanted to use TMG to...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 04/26/2011
TMG URL Filtering fails
Introduction Consider the scenario where we have URL Filtering enabled on TMG 2010 Server and...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 04/11/2011
New WIKI article: Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Troubleshooting Survival Guide
As I mentioned in a previous post, Yuri Diogenes was working on a TMG troubleshooting survival WIKI...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 04/03/2011
User Activity report for multiple users not working error 0xc0040432
The user activity report is a new feature of Forefront TMG SP1. I recently came across an issue...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 03/26/2011
TMG Enhanced NAT – considerations when using the Default IP Address
With TMG we introduced a feature called “Enhanced NAT” (ENAT). ENAT enables you to configure the IP...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 03/17/2011
TechNet Webcast: Talk TechNet with Keith Combs and Matt Hester – Episode 11: Yuri Diogenes on Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Level 200)
The tireless Yuri Diogenes was interviewed on Talk TechNet last week. If you did not get a chance to...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 03/15/2011
TMG 2010 SP1 and UAG 2010 SP1 are supported on Windows 2008 R2 SP1
Microsoft Windows 2008 Server R2 SP1 has recently been released. SP1 contains changes that are...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 03/06/2011
New WIKI Article by Yuri Diogenes–”Forefront TMG 2010 Survival Guide”
Hi all, Our very prolific Yuri Diogenes just contributed a new WIKI page called “Forefront...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 02/27/2011
Using Forefront TMG 2010 to Secure Access to Your Cloud Services
If you read the article Economics of the Cloud published last November on Microsoft on the Issues...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 02/22/2011
Connectivity verifier memory issues caused by optional update KB971737
Recently Microsoft Customer Service and Support have seen cases with the firewall process...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 02/16/2011
CSS Forefront Edge Team is Hiring in US
The Microsoft TMG/UAG Server support team in US is looking to hire a Full Time Employee. If you’d be...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 02/07/2011
TMG Basics – should we use this blog or a new one?
Hi all, We thought it could be useful do create a series of blog posts about TMG basics (i.e....
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 01/31/2011
ISA Firewall Service Process (wspsrv.exe) high CPU utilization issue
- Introduction When dealing with ISA high CPU utilization where wspsrve.exe is the one...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 01/26/2011
Random authentication prompts while accessing internet through ISA Server followed by ISA Server becoming unresponsive
Introduction Consider a scenario where users behind ISA Server (internal network) start to receive...
Author: Ori Yosefi - MSFT Date: 01/12/2011