Posts Tagged ‘filtering’

December 22 2009

URL Categories, HTTPS inspection and Web Access Policy in TMG

I recently had a chance to look at the Web Access Policy capability that has been added to Threat Management Gateway (TMG), which is the latest version of ISA Server.
In this post, I will explain:

The Web Access Policy Wizard
The URL Categories feature
The HTTPS inspection feature

The Web Access Policy wizard lets you create [...]

November 28 2009

Threat Management Gateway 2010 now available

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway has been released to market on November 16, 2009 after completing three beta releases and receiving extensive customer feedback.
You can download the trial version of Threat Management Gateway here.
From the Forefront TMG team’s blog:
“Forefront TMG is a Secure Web Gateway (SWG) that improves security enforcement by integrating multiple detection technologies [...]

January 9 2008

Opening blocked attachments in Outlook

Some file extensions are blocked by Microsoft Outlook for the potential damage that they may cause. File types blocked include EXE, COM, MDB and many others.
Outlook displays a message that it has blocked the attachment:
Sometimes it becomes necessary to “unblock” a particular file extension. One of the most common requests is to unblock Access database [...]

November 3 2007

Orkut blocked

I’ve just realized that Orkut is blocked inside the UAE. I don’t know why, but there’s probably a good reason as to why they blocked Orkut and Hi5, while they still allow Facebook!

I’m gonna miss scrapping my buddies!
See also: Why Facebook is not blocked by Etisalat