isa & tmg

howto://shape traffic on tmg 2010

2011-05-23

TMG 2010 does a great job of securing your network, and can exercise very precise control of internal users’ access to the Internet when it comes to ports and protocols, file access, etc., but unfortunately it cannot do anything to control bandwidth consumption. Whether you call it traffic shaping, bandwidth restrictions, rate limiting, or speed [...]

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howto://change the NAT address on TMG 2010

2011-04-12

Need to change the external address your users’ traffic is NAT’d to on TMG 2010? Here’s the how to.

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howto://configure sstp vpn support on tmg 2010

2010-09-27

The Secure Sockets Tunnelling Protocol offers modern Windows clients full VPN access over TCP 443, meaning it should work from anywhere that allows web surfing. This post talks about the advantages of this solution, how to set it up, and how to address a couple of common errors that might crop up.

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howto://upgrade tmg 2010 to sp1

2010-09-20

TMG 2010 is not the easiest product in the world to upgrade to SP1. This post will let you know the secret in case you didn’t read the TechNet article.

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Oh WireShark, why have you forsaken me?

2010-08-25

While I tend to install WireShark on EVERYTHING, and cannot repro this issue on other systems built in a very similar fashion, I ran into a problem on TMG today with NLB that looks very much like WinPCAP was the root cause. This talks about the setup in case you find yourself in a similar situation.

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plug it in, turn it on, rest easy. gfi webmonitor rocks!

2010-08-02

The GFI WebMonitor plug-in for TMG 2010 is an excellent choice for SMBs looking to leverage their TMG 2010 infrastructure, and add additional protections for their clients. Easy to install, easy to administer, with great protection, it’s a win.

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howto://connect clients to exchange-part two

2010-07-28

In this post we set up Exchange 2010 to support ActiveSync and Outlook Anywhere, we publish this to the Internet through our TMG, and we even see how to configure iPod/iPhone/iPad devices for ActiveSync.

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howto://connect clients to exchange-part one

2010-07-26

In this post we set up Exchange 2010 to support POP3 and IMAP

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Analysing TMG2010 for fun and profit

2010-07-21

Microsoft releases some pretty cool tools from time to time…the challenge is finding them. This post will go over the Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Best Practices Analyzer, or TMGBPA for short.

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howto://configure pptp vpn support on tmg 2010

2010-07-02

In this post, we’re going to go through setting up our TMG 2010 server to support client PPTP VPN. We’ll go over why PPTP is a good choice for many businesses, the basic network setup involved, and then finally, how to actually configure our TMG server to support PPTP clients. Much of what we will [...]

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howto://enable xbox live behind TMG 2010

2010-06-04

  While I am going to detail how to get an Xbox working with Xbox Live when your Internet connection is controlled by Forefront TMG Server 2010, you might find some helpful information in here even if you have a Linksys, or a Netgear box, so don’t despair yet. And since I considered as an [...]

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howto://publish OWA through TMG

2010-05-26

  Mmmm…Outlook Web Access. Having had to deal with Notes’ pathetic excuse for webmail for the past six months, I was thrilled (thrilled! I say) to get myself some OWA action. "Any browser, and operating system" seems to be a fair statement, and in all cases, it still looks like Outlook. So of course, the [...]

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