"The third server in the EBS 2008 product is called the Security Server. Its purpose is to act as the perimeter security watch dog and control all inbound and outbound access to the network. It includes a product called Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition. We’ll call it TMG for short. TMG is the next version of ISA Server being written based on a full 64-bit code base. more...
I told you it was going to happen! The Forefront Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 (IAG 2007) is going virtual. That's right. You now have the choice between a hardware IAG SSL VPN appliance, or you can drop a IAG 2007 SP2 virtual appliance into your Hyper-V network. I can't overemphasize how important this is to the IAG community. In the past, the community was fairly small, since only a limited number of people had access to IAG for testing and evaluation. more...
That's right! The TMG firewall is now available to the general public in RTM form. You don't have to use the beta any longer. The Microsoft Essential Business Server (EBS) suite of server products was released last week and the TMG firewall was at the forefront (!) of the offering. more...
If you're running a TMG firewall, you might have noticed that the update fails when you try to install the SQL Server 2005 SP2 update (KB948109). The problem was that the TMG SQL Reporting Web site installed on the TMG firewall isn't listening on the default port and that confused the installer. The good news is that there is a new update, KB954606, which fixes this problem. more...
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