ForeFront Products Suite (Endpoint, FIM, FOPE, TMG, UAG)

UAG – Provide contact information on application portal

After providing contact information on UAG logon page (see previous post), you may also want to provide contact information on application portal. Once again, default settings doesn’t provide contact details and you have to update some files.     To update the Contact us link provided at the bottom left of the page, update the mailto …

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UAG – Provide administrator contact on logon page

ForeFront Unified Access Gateway is the Microsoft solution to provide remote and secure access to application (web or legacy) through a portal. However, the default settings doesn’t provide contact information (administrator’s contact) on logon page or portal page. To provide this information on logon page, you have to update the language definition files. By default, …

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UAG – Provide remote desktop access without Remote Desktop Gateway

As you may already know, Windows Server 2008 is providing new remote desktop functionality, called Remote Access Gateway, which allow RDP access to internal network without VPN. However, this doesn’t provide detailed security management, especially if you publish RPD gateway through ISA or TMG. To simplify this, you should publish Remote Desktop Access through UAG. …

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SharePoint / UAG – Keep SharePoint content available offline on your Windows Mobile phone

With Office 2010 Mobile, you have also SharePoint Workspace Mobile. To remind you, SharePoint Workspace is the evolution of Groove client (Office 2007) which allow you to keep SharePoint content available while offline. If you publish your SharePoint site through UAG, you have few additional settings to set. Once you have added your SharePoint site …

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SharePoint / UAG – Publish a blog and allow posting

If you publish a SharePoint blog through UAG, you will not able to using a blog writer (such as Word or Live Writer). The action shown in this poste were done using Live Writer. When you try to post to the blog published through UAG, you will have an error during the uploading process. Same …

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TMG – FTP over HTTP not allowed and not available at the Enterprise level

You can have the following issue if you try to access to an FTP Server which use FTP over HTTP protocol. This is not unusual as many web server which provide download (such as manufacturers web site for downloading their updated drivers). I was surprised as I configured my TMG EMS to allow FTP protocol. …

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ForeFront UAG – First update for Microsoft ForeFront UAG

Microsoft has released his first update for Microsoft ForeFront UAG. This update contains: Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Update 1 is an update to Forefront UAG that provides a number of functionality updates and other improvements. The following is provided by Forefront UAG Update 1: • Remote Desktop access from Windows Vista and Windows …

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ForeFront Protection – ForeFront for Exchange best antispam solution

According to Virus Bulletin, ForeFront Protection for Exchange is the best antispam solution with a blocking rate at 99,86%. This can be explained with the high integration of ForeFront with Exchange. ForeFront is the only solution with is fully integrated with Exchange, and doesn’t apply on top of Exchange. See the ‘magic’ quadrant More details …

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Security – The Microsoft ForeFront team (security) is conducting a survey

The Forefront Server Protection team are conducting research to understand what applications you would like to protect, and how you would like them protected. One of the applications they are soliciting feedback on is SharePoint. The survey shouldn’t take more than 5-10 minutes, and your feedback directly impacts product decisions. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/forefrontsurvey