It is our pleasure to announce that Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 was released to manufacturing yesterday (Nov 16 the new release and evaluate it in your environment. Forefront TMG provides an unparalleled value to the network security marketplace by integrating multiple web security technologies into a single, comprehensive .. more »

In this article I want to provide a quick guide, about how to modify the xHTML F(orm) B(ased) A(uthentication) page the client will receive, when it is connecting to a site published with FBA through ISA server 2006 using a mobile Client, e.g. running Windows Mobile. Every time a client connects to the ISA server FBA site ISA server will check the .. more »

Another great new TechNet Edge video.  Alexander Nikolayev, program manager for FPE, walks us through how all of the anti-spam features work, including the new functionality with FPE over the previous version.  After a couple minutes we dive right into the whiteboard walking through the mail flow anti-spam features with connection, protocol, and co.. more »

Identity and Security Business Group Director Joe Licari discusses FPE and the road ahead for Business Ready Security.   .. more »

Hello Community: As you probably know, Forefront TMG introduced the E-mail Protection feature in Beta 3. Since then weve made significant improvements based on our plans and your feedback. Id like to go over the basics of installing Forefront TMG and the additional components necessary for e-mail protection, and point you to the relevant links .. more »

Customers also have the choice of using the hosted Forefront Online Protection for Exchange service, or both offerings together for defense-in-depth. Email is an extremely critical application, of course, and it presents challenges to both businesspeople and IT managers. Employees (and non-employees) needs secure access to messaging and documents .. more »

, we announced the availability of the Microsoft Reputation Services Feedback and Error Reporting Portal (beta). The purpose is to allow anyone the ability to provide feedback to Microsoft on URL classifications. When a block page is presented to the end user, Forefront TMG includes a link offering the opportunity to report the URL to Microsoft as .. more »

Windows Identity Foundation (formerly called code name Geneva framework) is a new Microsoft .NET Framework technology that gives developers a programming model and SDK to create new advanced identity capabilities in .NET applications.  It provides developers pre-built .NET security logic for building claims-aware applications, enhancing either A.. more »

receive any updates for these retired engines. In order to make sure your Antigen and Forefront products continue to scan efficiently and effectively for malware , any customers running the AhnLab, CA, or Sophos engines must these engines before Dec. 1, 2009 and select from the new set of five engines Authentium, Kaspersky, Microsoft, Norman, and V.. more »

Cristian Mora Aguilar, Forefront Technical PM, starts off by briefly telling us about Microsoft's secure messaging solution and what business problems it resolves. He then gives us a screencast / demo of some of the cool scenarios enabled and problems solved with the secure messaging solution.  Find out how Microsoft products help secure Mi.. more »

The top finding is that worms infections in the enterprise rose by nearly 100 percent during the first half of 2009. According to the report, rogue security software remained the single largest threat category for the first half of 2009. Microsoft products and services removed such malware from more than 13 million computers worldwide, down from .. more »

I would like to introduce the new Forefront TMG Client (formerly known as Firewall Client). As you might have noticed, we have changed the components name. This was done in order to emphasize the point that it is part of the Forefront family of products. : When a user visits an HTTPS site and Forefront TMG HTTPS Inspection is configured to notify .. more »

Forefront TMG introduces the Web Access Policy Wizard to help you create Web access rules and Web protection settings for your organization. You can launch the wizard from the completion page of the Getting Started wizard, or by navigating to the Web Access Policy node and selecting the Configure Web Access Policy option. Note that in ISA Server .. more »

We are happy to announce the availability of the Management Pack (MP) for the Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Release Candidate. As a response to your feedback, we enhanced the management pack, to increase the coverage and usability of the feature pack. While the previous release monitored and managed some of Forefront TMGs features, .. more »

Issues after updating the ISA Management console on a Windows Vista/7 client If you start the Management console after installing an ISA update or service pack, regardless if you updated it via Windows Update or by manually downloading/installing a hotfix, you may the following Error Message: Looking in the Application Event log on your client .. more »

Ben Bernstein and Stephen Bowie tell us what the value is for After this, we do a whiteboard of UAG + DA architecture, including explaining how it works with multiple UAG servers. Here's how the rest of the interview breaks down: How UAG supports legacy IPv4 clients (Marker 3 @ 8:02) How does the client know to connect to the proper DNS server and .. more »

Branch offices are often connected to a corporate headquarters or corporate data center to access Line of Business (LOB) applications via a WAN link. Depending on the deployment, branch offices may connect directly to the Internet, or indirectly via the WAN link. WAN links can be slow, so organizations often look for ways to optimize their WAN .. more »

The new TMG Client that is available on TMG 2010 is now capable of performing automatic discovery using a record that resides on Active Directory. TMG Client still able to use the traditional methods (DHCP / DNS) for automatic discovery, the difference now is that if both options are enabled on UI (see Figure 1) the auto detection will take effect .. more »

Voice over IP (VoIP) communications are transmitted via the internet and therefore need to be allowed to pass through your firewall. A basic VoIP call is based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), which is the most common protocol used today. A SIP VoIP call is carried out using User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and incorporates two protocols: Session .. more »

can protect internal client workstation from accessing non legitimate HTTPS web sites. The whole idea is to avoid that client open a SSL tunnel with the destination server and the content that pass through this tunnel not being inspected, causing a potential way for malicious code to pass through and reach the client workstation. The goal of this .. more »