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 [...]
While tinkering with a TMG issue, a TMG server stopped working as expected. The symptoms I observed were when rebooting the TMG server I had to wait TWENTY minutes of looking at Applying Computer Settings screen before I could log in, only to find out that four out of the five TMG services hadn’t started. The [...]
The great thing about any new or updated firewall is the coders understand the protocols and processes that little bit more. This means the stuff that worked on the old version might now not work on the new one. This is very much the case on moving from ISA to TMG – especially for FTP. [...]
After doing some normal patching updates on the IAG and client machines, I suddenly had the problem when trying to connect to a Java based application. The SSL wrapper screen appeared but after a minute an error would appear. The app wasn’t working. This isn’t good as The fix turnd out to be quick and [...]
A quick and simple ISA rule to block dangerous web sites and URLs Overview: Create a URL set of all sites and block them. In this case I want to stop users being re-directed to the malware sites of the day. The sites I want to blocked are taken from the Internet Storm Center story [...]
