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Deb Shinder, MVP (Enterprise Security) continues the Shinder tradition of providing ISAserver.org readers with the latest and greatest news, tips and tricks for optimizing your ISA Server or TMG based network security infrastructure. This blog will address all topics pertaining to the Microsoft firewall products and how ISA/TMG administrators can get the most out of them so your company’s employees can use the Internet safely and productively.

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Stefaan Pouseele, an ISA Server MVP, discusses issues brought up within various ISA articles and Microsoft publications. Updates to the ISA Firewall, protocol support, discussions on the different ISA clients, ISA features, how to clean up network traffic and links to new ISA server literature are all be included within the blog. Get help on troubleshooting the ISA network firewall and learn how to create good security policies. Coverage on ISA Server 2006 also appears.

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Latest ISAserver blog posts

Forefront UAG Now in Common Criteria Evaluation

Date - Feb 5th, 2010

Author - Debra Shinder

Thought you’d like know that the UAG is now undergoing Common Criteria evaluation for EAL2+ rating. For more information, check out the UAG Team Blog over at: http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2010/01/14/forefront-uag-in-common-criteria-evaluation.aspx DEBRA LITTLEJOHN SHINDERMVP (Enterprise Security)“MS SECURITY”dshinder@isaserver.org. more...

Forefront UAG Content Bonanza

Date - Feb 5th, 2010

Author - Debra Shinder

The future of publishing and Microsoft remote access is Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG). UAG is the focal point for all new development and innovation when it comes to remote access connections to your network. more...

Using EdgeSync with TMG Firewalls

Date - Feb 5th, 2010

Author - Debra Shinder

If you’re been watching this space, you probably know that I’ve been doing a comprehensive series on the TMG firewall’s email hygiene solution. If you didn’t know that, make sure to check the front page of the ISAserver.org site and look at the current list of recent articles. To get you up to speed – the TMG firewall, in addition to being an enterprise grade network firewall, is also able to act as your email security gateway. more...

TMG ISP Redundancy Settings Customization

Date - Jan 29th, 2010

Author - Debra Shinder

We have articles here at ISAserver.org on how to configure the ISP redundancy feature included with the TMG firewall. In this article http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Kicking-Tires-TMG-2010-RC-ISP-Redundancy-Part1.html Tom described how ISP Redundancy works and then walks you through the setup and configuration of these feature. He even discusses how the failover and failback process works. more...

TMG and NLB and Hyper-V

Date - Jan 29th, 2010

Author - Debra Shinder

Getting NLB to work in a virtual environment is always a pain in the neck. For example, try figuring out if VMware workstation 7.0 supports Unicast or Multicast NLB. Go ahead, just try it. Tom even posted a question on the typically very useful message boards over at www.vmware.com and got no answer at all. You’d think with all the users of VMware Workstation out there one person would have used NLB with VMware Workstation. more...

NLB Fix for Windows Server 2008 R2

Date - Jan 26th, 2010

Author - Debra Shinder

A quick heads up to all our TMG firewall and UAG admins – if you’re using these products on Windows Server 2008 R2, and you’re taking advantage of integrated support for Windows Network Load balancing, then you’ll want to install the hotfix noted in the link below: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978943 This should fix the problems you’ve been having with arrays not converging. more...

TMG Firewall Case Studies

Date - Jan 26th, 2010

Author - Debra Shinder

No one wants to the first guy on the street to try a new technology. That’s for beta testers and other adrenaline freaks! What most of like to do is find out what the other guy’s experiences have been with the new product and technology, how they’ve used it, what works for them and what doesn’t work. Then, after reviewing the experiences of others, we’ll head into our own investigations and see if it works for us. That’s true for network firewalls too. more...

Richard Hicks Solves the 32bit Console Conundrum

Date - Jan 25th, 2010

Author - Debra Shinder

I’ve noticed that several people were having problems with installing the TMG firewall console on their 32bit workstations. For this reason I assumed that you could not install the TMG firewall console on a 32bit machine. It made sense to me, since TMG is a native 64bit application and they wanted to gently “nudge” us to use 64bit workstations. more...

Introduction to Solution Guides

Date - Jan 25th, 2010

Author - Debra Shinder

If you’re an experienced ISA or TMG firewall administrator, you realize that the firewall is actually a swiss army knife of firewalls. Why do I say this? As I’ve pointed out in the books I’ve written with Tom, the ISA and TMG firewalls provide a collection of features and capabilities that make them unique in the enterprise firewall market. more...

What are the TMG Firewall Categories

Date - Jan 25th, 2010

Author - Debra Shinder

That’s a good question. I guess you could go through the user interface and count them and write them down. But maybe there’s an easier way? Yep, there is an easier way :) Head on over to the TMG Firewall Team blog and you’ll find a complete list https://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2010/01/03/categories-for-url-filtering.aspx HTH, Deb DEBRA LITTLEJOHN SHINDERMVP (Enterprise Security)“MS SECURITY”dshinder@isaserver.org. more...