Forefront TMG 2010 docs available

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Michel de Rooij

Today, the Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 documentation became available on TechNet.

Besides the regular topics, like configuring TMG as a secure gateway between your network and the internet, the documentation also focuses on new functionality like HTTPS inspection, Anti-malware, Network Inspection (NIS), Enhanced NAT, VOIP support, 64-bit support and interoperability between TMG and BranchCache (new functionality in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 r2).

The documentation also contains steps on how to plan to, prepare for and configure ForeFront TMG in relationship with Exchange Edge Servers, i.e. E-Mail Protection as well as steps on how to upgrade from previous products like ISA Server to ForeFront TMG here.

You can find the ForeFront TMG 2010 documentation here.

Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 RTM

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Michel de Rooij

A few days ago, Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG) reached RTM status. UAG is the successor to Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG), and provides remote access to remote resources through (SSL) VPN or DirectAccess, providing a Single Sign-On (SSO) portal and making more granular control over publishing of applications, such as Exchange, possible.

For more information follow on of the provided links below:

ForeFront Protection 2010 SP1 64-bit?

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Michel de Rooij

In a statement on the issue with ForeFront being 32-bit or 64-bit, ForeFront Senior Program Manager Carolyn Liu announced today that the upcoming releases of Microsoft ForeFront Protection for SharePoint 2010 (FPSP) and Microsoft ForeFront Protection for Exchange Server (FPES) 2010 with Service Pack 1 will be native 64-bit. The statement came after questions rose on the 32-bit parts in for instance FPE 2010, while Exchange 2007 and 2010 may only be installed on 64-bit platforms in production environments. This is their intent, as the blog also states that scanning engines not yet available in 32-bit will remain hosted in a seperate process with FPSP and FPE 2010 SP1. SP1 will introduce the possibility to alternate between using 32-bit or 64-bit engines. This way you can make the switch when a 64-bit engine becomes available or switch back to the 32-bit engine when required.

FPE2010 capacity planning guide update

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Michel de Rooij

The ForeFront Server Protection team is very active and just released an updated of their capacity planning guide for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE). This guide is a hardware design document for FPE, advising on the number of CPU cores, memory requirements and utilization and throughput tresholds. It also contains performance guidelines are also given for Exchange 2010 deployments; an interactive tool – like the one for ForeFront Security for Exchange Server v10 SP1 (FSE10SP1) – is announced for the future. Goal of the document document is to perform an indication of the impact on the Exchange environment. You can view the FPE2010 capacity planning guide here.

Forefront Online Protection SLA

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Michel de Rooij

Microsoft published version 2 of their Service Level Agreement for the Microsoft ForeFront Online Protection for Exchange, formerly known as Exchange Hosted Filtering. It defines the elements of the agreements as well as the levels of service. It also contains details on service credits when uptime, mail delivery times, filter effictiveness or false positive ratios fall below agreed tresholds. Consult the document for details, you can download it here in one of the five available languages.