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Forefront TMG RTM Overview Interview

David Tesar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:59:00 GMT

With the RTM of Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG), David Cross tells us about what's new and gives some real-world examples of how Microsoft IT has benefited from TMG over ISA 2006. He also discusses the following:

Why TMG only utilizes Microsoft signatures with the GAPA / NIS capabilities
How TMG protects non-Microsoft & unmanaged clients
URL filtering capabilities
How TMG can help you save costs
How to migrate from 32-bit ISA 2006 servers to the (only 64-bit) TMG server
The differences between UAG and TMG

Download TMG RTM
Learn more about TMG

DirectAccess is Key to Microsoft IT Remote Access Strategy

Microsoft IT Showcase — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Microsoft IT has leveraged DirectAccess as its future in preferred remote access technology. DirectAccess is a new feature in Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2. With DirectAccess, users are always connected to the corporate network whenever they are connected to the Internet, and without having to use a VPN. This seamless and ubiquitous access method has resulted both significant end user and business benefits for Microsoft.

Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) PM video

David Tesar — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:00:00 GMT

With the public launch of Beta 2 for TMG today, Ori Yosefi, TMG Program Manager, tells us briefly about some of the new capabilities in TMG, why the team decided to focus on these features, where he thinks TMG is strong against the competitors, and reasons why you might consider upgrading to TMG over ISA 2006.

Download TMG Beta 2 or learn more about it
Learn about the discount announcement for ISA + SA

IAG SP2 hits RTM - details under the cover interview

David Tesar — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:10:00 GMT

Uri Lichtenfeld gives us the inside story on the “why” behind IAG SP2. In an immediately preceding video on Edge, he gave us a quick overview and compete information on Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG).

Topics we cover:

Why we decided to choose Linux and Mac for endpoint mappers
Why you cannot download the software to install IAG on your own hardware
What you need to do to get the IAG SP2 virtual machine going
Considerations for utilizing an IAG SP2 virtual machine
Why we chose the new optimizers we did
How to get started with IAG SP2

Download the IAG SP2 evaluation virtual machine

SSL VPN comparison with IAG

David Tesar — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:01:00 GMT

There are many SSL VPN and other remote access solutions out there; we compare how IAG (Internet Application Gateway) stacks up and how it fits into the bigger picture. We interviewed an expert in IAG and remote access solutions, Uri Lichtenfeld, IAG product manager at Microsoft.

Topics covered:

Where DirectAccess fits in with IAG
How endpoint detection varies with IAG
How we generally stack up against the competition
Why your company might switch over to IAG if you already have an existing solution
Description of tunneling solutions IAG provides relative to competitors
How IAG can help save costs in your environment

For more info, visit the IAG homepage

Virtualize your ISA or Forefront TMG servers

David Tesar — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:04:00 GMT

In the past, ISA has had very limited or no support on Microsoft's virtualization platform. Now, ISA and Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) is supported . I met up with Jim Harrison to get some guidance on what you need to think about when you virtualize your ISA/TMG servers. We quickly dive into a whiteboard session on the various ways you can configure Hyper-V / virtual server to work with ISA/TMG and dig into the advantages and disadvantages of each network configuration such as:

Performance
Management
Administration
Security

Some other things we talk about:

[15:12] Why placing TMG on the parent is a bad idea and how you should configure the parent partition
Configuration options of the actual ISA/TMG server
[22:11] Failover, Clustering, and Quick Migration with ISA / TMG in a virtual environment
[24:32] Configuration changes you should make for any host which faces the Internet

View the security considerations for virtualized ISA / TMG deployments guide / whitepaper Jim wrote.

See KB article 957006 which states ISA (and other) products are officially supported on Hyper-V.

Best practices for ISA server co-location with a DC

Next Version of ISA - TAP RDP - Program Manager Yossi Siles

David Tesar — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:32:00 GMT

Yossi Siles made a visit from Microsoft in Israel back to the Redmond campus and I was able to get an interview with him in my office. Ever wonder how the TAP, RDP, and customer programs really work? Why Microsoft doesn't allow more people into these things?

In this interview, we de-mystify the customer programs for early adopters and also talk a little bit about some of the certification programs ISA puts itself through. The ISA team is apparently still looking for people for a short period of time, so watch the interview and learn more. When he talks about "our program", this would be the IT Pro Momentum program - also to help customers adopt technology early.

Would you like to be an early adopter of the next wave of ISA / Forefront Edge technologies? Comment on this post.