Microsoft’s Threat Management Gateway (TMG) comes with a 120 day trial of two subscription-based features, wittily known  as Forefront TMG Web Protection Services (WPS).

These features are URL Filtering (URLF) which is a form of web content filtering and Anti-Malware or Enhanced Malware Protection (AM or EMP) that scans inbound HTTP traffic downloads.

We have an Enterprise Agreement (EA) which covers having the two features  so I expected to find the key in our License portal. No, that’s too obvious. It turns out that I needed to enter our actual Enterprise Agreement key. The first seven digits of the EA needs to be popped in to the TMG server field in the picture above then Ms’ trusts you to enter in the right date your EA expires. That’s it.

Finding this out took quite a bit of time, numerous emails and careful explanation to people what the heck was WPS in TMG. Finally this link from Ms turned up

Had I found this at the start, well, it would have taken two minutes rather than two weeks.