Growing concerns about Internet security spurred the development of secure encrypted protocols to deliver web content.  The Secure Sockets Layer Protocol was developed and released by Netscape in 1994, 19 years ago.  SSL and its superseding technology Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the primary method of securing web based data transfer today. Amazingly, very few

Richard Hicks is a guy worth listening to when it comes to Forefront TMG. He has been installing, configuring, and managing TMG and its predecessors ISA Server and Proxy Server for more than 15 years. He has also built a great resource of information that Forefront TMG administrators use every

After a lengthy beta period, we are happy to announce that Fastvue TMG Reporter 2.1 has been officially released! TMG Reporter 2.1 features detailed Activity Reports, Scheduled Custom Reports, Comprehensive Filtering and more! See What’s New Or read on below… Activity Reports Activity Reports provide a chronological list of all

When configuring your Forefront TMG Web Access policy, there is an option to enable HTTPS inspection. In this article, I will aim to clear up some confusion surrounding HTTPS inspection in Forefront TMG, and the impacts it has on URL filtering, privacy and reporting. The Tunnel We all know that HTTPS

In September 2012, Microsoft announced it was discontinuing its popular Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) edge security product (read the announcement). Although mainstream support will continue through to 2015, all sales officially ended in December 2012. If you contact Microsoft to purchase or renew Forefront TMG, you will be told that

Everyone has seen the Anonymous user in their Forefront TMG Reports. This is because Forefront TMG logs ‘anonymous’ in the username field for all unauthenticated traffic. We have blogged about the Forefront TMG Anonymous User, and written numerous support articles. But here is the best tip we can give you to reduce unauthenticated traffic in Forefront TMG:

We’re happy to announce Fastvue TMG Reporter 2.1 Beta is now available! New features include Activity Reports, Custom Report Scheduling, Comprehensive Filtering, Drilldown Reporting, Import from remote SQL Logs, and native support for Windows Server 2012 and Window 8.

The Fastvue Log Grep Utility takes a folder of W3C text logs (or any text files), and produces new files containing only the log lines matching your search criteria. The new files are unaltered in format and structure and retain the original log headers. The Fastvue Log Grep Utility is perfect for cutting down a folder of Forefront TMG or ISA Server W3C text logs to just the information in your search string. You can then import these reduced files into WebSpy Vantage, or any other log analysis app. And it’s Free!

Forefront TMG’s ISP redundancy allows you to connect two separate ISP’s as routes out to the Internet. There are two configurations; fail-over or load balanced. Failover configuration provides a robust Internet connection in the event your primary ISP connection goes down by routing traffic to a standby ISP connection. The drawback of this active-passive

Forefront TMG does not log authenticated usernames or site hostnames for SecureNAT Clients. The Top Sites sections in Fastvue TMG Reporter will therefore only show IP addresses for SecureNAT traffic, and the Top Users sections will only show the Anonymous user. Fortunately the site hostname issue can be fixed by applying a hotfix from Microsoft. This enables Forefront TMG to log the hostname with the URL, so that site names can be reported on in Fastvue TMG Reporter.