Posts Tagged ‘forefront’

March 13 2010

Forefront vs. the competition

In this post, I am sharing the current position of Forefront Client Security (Forefront Endpoint Protection) and Forefront Protection for Exchange in the market, in comparison to similar solutions from other competitors.
1. Forefront Client Security:
We have very high comparative ratings from VirusBulletin – which does independent testing of antivirus solutions.
Below: Average result of multiple [...]

March 4 2010

TechEd session: Your evaluation is important!

I would like to thank those of you that attended my session on Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway and DirectAccess yesterday at TechEd Middle East 2010. If you heard about this blog from my session, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS.
I cannot stress enough on how important your session evaluations are. [...]

February 24 2010

Learn about DirectAccess and Forefront UAG at TechEd

Countdown to TechEd – 4 days to go.
T minus 4 for the biggest tech event in Dubai — TechEd Middle East 2010.
Here’s a reminder of the session that I will be speaking at. Hope to see you there!
Session: SIA308 – Secure Remote Access with Unified Access Gateway and Direct Access
Track: Security, Identity and Access [...]

February 22 2010

Enabling SSO with RemoteApp on UAG

If you are publishing RemoteApp or Remote Desktop Services on Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010, and have enabled Single Sign On (SSO) on the RDS application in UAG, you might find that UAG tries to perform user logon on the published server using computername\username instead of domain\username.
I’ve researched this issue and found that there’s nothing [...]

February 22 2010

Publishing Remote Desktop Services on UAG

If you’re trying to publish Remote Desktop Services or RemoteApp on Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010, and if you encounter the following error, read on:
“Your computer can’t connect to the remote computer because no certificate was configured to use at the Remote Desktop Gateway server. Contact your network administrator for assistance”.

Before we look into [...]

February 18 2010

Security event at Qatar, February 17

Microsoft Qatar did a Security event yesterday at the Four Seasons Hotel, Doha. We started off with an enthusiastic audience of 70+ people.

We kicked off with a presentation on Microsoft Business Ready Security by good ol’ David Maskell, Security SSP – Microsoft Gulf, followed by technical demos.

Fadel Lubbos, Senior Consultant from Information & Communication [...]