Posts Tagged ‘ISA server’

February 6 2010

“RPC Server is unavailable” error when requesting a certificate

While trying to request a certificate using the Certificates MMC snap-in on a computer running ISA Server, Threat Management Gateway (TMG) or Unified Access Gateway (UAG), you may encounter the following error:
“The RPC Server is unavailable”

This may be caused due to the RPC Filter in ISA Server/TMG. The RPC filter ensures security by monitoring RPC [...]

January 11 2010

SSA program changes in 2010 {Partners}

Till December 2009 we had a very rewarding scheme with partners earning more than 30% of the estimated retail price as incentive for recommending and deploying our security solutions.
This year, some changes have been made to the SSA program, and I’d like to share the highlights here.

Recap: What is SSA?
The Security Software Advisor (SSA) program [...]

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 [...]

December 20 2009

Licensing Promo on Threat Management Gateway

Threat Management Gateway (TMG), is the next generation of ISA Server, released earlier this month. I explained in detail the new features and benefits of Threat Management Gateway in an earlier post.
Forefront TMG includes new URL filtering, Web antimalware, and intrusion prevention technologies to protect businesses against the latest Web based threats. These technologies are [...]

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 [...]

May 3 2009

Top 12 mistakes while configuring ISA Server

This article used to exist on www.shijaz.com before it was taken down in May 2009. Originally published in August 2007.
 
This article lists some of the common configuration mistakes and gives information on how to avoid them.

There is no such thing as a single interface firewall

A firewall has a minimum of two network interfaces. This means [...]