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Simplify Forefront TMG Migration By Web Chaining To An Upstream Proxy

This article describes how to avoid Forefront TMG migration headaches by web chaining to the upstream proxy you'll eventually migrate to.
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Finding a Forefront TMG replacement is more urgent than you thought

No longer receiving updates is one thing, but Microsoft just announced that URL Filtering will not work AT ALL after December 31st 2015. Finding your Forefront TMG replacement is now more urgent than you perhaps thought.
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Fastvue TMG Reporter v3.0 Out Now!

Fastvue TMG Reporter v3.0 is now available! Fastvue Site Clean, Private Report Sharing, Better Web Activity Reports, Search Term Reports and more!
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How To Secure Fastvue TMG Reporter for Private Report Sharing

This video shows you how to setup and use the Private Report sharing feature in Fastvue TMG Reporter
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How to Fix Web Application Proxy and AD FS Certificate Issues (Error Code 0x8007520C)

I received the error "The operation stopped due to an unknown general error. Error code 0x8007520c" on my Web Application Proxy. This is how I solved it:
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Fastvue TMG Reporter 3.0 Beta Now Available

New Features in Fastvue TMG Reporter 3.0 include more useful Web Browsing Activity reports, Private Report Sharing, Export to CSV and more!
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Updated Exchange 2013 Forms Based Authentication Templates for TMG

My Exchange 2013 Forms based authentication templates for Forefront TMG now include the Change Password, Radius and SecureID forms and more!
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Understanding Hyper-V Dynamic Memory (Dynamic RAM)

This article explains how Hyper-V's Dynamic Memory feature works and how to monitor RAM usage in both the hypervisor and the virtual machines.
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Forefront TMG HTTPS Inspection Issues with SHA256 / CNG Certificates

As a consequence of Heartbleed, many websites have updated their HTTPS certificate to SHA256 (CNG) which Forefront TMG HTTPS Inspection does not support.
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How to Enable and Disable SSL / TLS Versions on Forefront TMG

This article explains how to enable and disable SSL / TLS versions on Forefront TMG to ensure your sites are running the most secure protocol version.
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How To Extend Forefront TMG's Web Protection Services (WPS) After November 30 2012

This article explains how to renew your Web Protection Services (WPS) Subscription for Forefront TMG as it can no longer be purchased from Microsoft.
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The Ins and Outs of Bi-directional Firewall Rules

Creating unnecessary bi-directional firewall rules is a common mistake by firewall administrators. This article explains when to use bi-directional rules.
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Forefront TMG Forms Based Authentication Template for Exchange 2013 OWA

We've created a new mobile friendly Forefront TMG Forms Based Authentication template in the new Exchange 2013 style. Download it here!
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How To Solve "13 The Data Is Invalid" Error in Forefront TMG

This article shows you how to solve the error "13 The data is invalid" in Forefront TMG when accessing a web server using Chunked encoding.
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Make The World A Better Place with Fastvue and Microsoft Reputation Services (MRS)

TMG Reporter can find sites that have not been categorized by Forefront TMG. You can then submit these sites to Microsoft Reputation Services (MRS), so everyone can benefit from your discovery!
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How To Recover Forefront TMG From a Corrupt Configuration Database

This article lists the steps to recover Forefront TMG from a corrupt configuration database hopefully saving you from rebuilding your TMG Server.
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Forefront TMG Configuration Backup Scripts For Standalone and Enterprise Arrays

This article explains how to perform both manual and automated (scripted) Forefront TMG configuration backups for both standalone and enterprise arrays.
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Understanding Hyper-V CPU Usage (Physical and Virtual)

Understanding Hyper-V CPU usage can be confusing. This article explains how physical and virtual CPU resources are utilized in a Hyper-V environment.
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Deploying Winfrasoft Forefront TMG Virtual Appliances

Having now deployed several Winfrasoft Forefront TMG Virtual Appliances, I thought I would document the process to show you how quick and easy it is!
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Fastvue TMG Reporter Voted Best Reporting Application - ISAServer.org Readers Choice

It's official. Fastvue TMG Reporter is the best reporting application for Forefront TMG as voted by ISAServer.org readers!
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Monitoring, Alerting and Blocking Countries with Forefront TMG

Monitoring, alerting and blocking countries from accessing your internal resources is easy with Forefront TMG and TMG Reporter. Richard Hicks shows you how.
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Troubleshooting Forefront TMG Web Proxy Auto Discovery (WPAD) Issues

This article describes the solution I came across when Internet access dropped in a Forefront TMG environment with Web Proxy Auto Discovery (WPAD).
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How to Report on YouTube Activity with Fastvue TMG Reporter

This video shows you how to report on youtube.com including how to create a report that provides a simple list of all the videos that people have watched.
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What everyone should know about HTTPS, SSL, TLS and Certificates

This articles explains the concepts of HTTPS, SSL, TLS and Certificates to help you avoid SSL related problems and warnings.
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Forefront TMG Tips and Tricks

Richard Hicks has some great tips and tricks that you can apply to help make your Forefront TMG firewall easier to manage and even more performant.
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TMG Reporter 2.1 Out Now!

TMG Reporter 2.1 features detailed Activity Reports, Scheduled Custom Reports, Comprehensive Filtering and more!
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HTTPS Inspection in Forefront TMG - Concerns and Misconceptions

This article clears up some confusion surrounding HTTPS inspection in Forefront TMG and the impacts has on URL Filtering, Privacy and Reporting.
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How To Purchase Forefront TMG After January 2013

You can still purchase Forefront TMG from OEM appliance vendors. Winfrasoft are the only vendor offering TMG Virtual Appliances for 'software only' deployments.
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Reducing Anonymous (Unauthenticated) Traffic in Forefront TMG

Forefront TMG logs 'anonymous' in the username field for all unauthenticated traffic. Our best tip for reducing unauthenticated traffic is...
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TMG Reporter 2.1 Now Available

TMG Reporter 2.1 for Forefront TMG now features Activity Reports, Custom Report Scheduling, Comprehensive Filtering, Drilldown Reporting and more!
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Free Windows Grep for W3C Log Files

This free Windows Grep Utility supports plain text search, regular expressions, inverted match, single output files and multiple output files.
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Extending Forefront TMG's ISP Redundancy Features

Deployment tips for Forefront TMG's ISP Redundancy Feature. Pros and cons of load balancing, failover and static ISP mappings.
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Reporting on Hostnames with Forefront TMG SecureNAT Clients

Forefront TMG does not log authenticated usernames or site hostnames for SecureNAT Clients. Applying this hotfix solves the hostname issue:
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Fastvue Acquires WebSpy

We are very happy to announce that Fastvue has successfully acquired WebSpy, a long time leader in log analysis and reporting applications.
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Forefront TMG Web Chaining and Reporting

This article takes you through configuring a Forefront TMG web chaining environment, and their unique challenges for reporting on user Internet activity.
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Critical Update for TMG Reporter (2.0.1.21)

We highly recommend updating your installation of TMG Reporter to avoid losing any historical data that has been imported into TMG Reporter to date.
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Hunting IE6 Zombies with TMG Reporter

Old machines running IE6 with no updates are a big security concern. TMG Reporter can send instant alerts when these 'zombie' machines make a connection.
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Blocking Sites with Forefront TMG

This article reviews methods of blocking sites with Forefront TMG's URL Filtering to ensure that your rules are as broad or as specific as they need to be.
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Our Five Most Common Forefront TMG Reporting Questions

From anonymous browsing to 'I didn't visit that site!'. Here are our answers to the five most commonly asked Forefront TMG Reporting questions.
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New TMG Reporter Features: Custom Reports, SQL Support and more

Forefront TMG reporting just received a huge upgrade with the new features in the latest Fastvue TMG Reporter release. Custom Reports, SQL Support and more.
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Testing and Monitoring Forefront TMG Malware Inspection and Intrusion Prevention (NIS) Systems

Are you actively monitoring Forefront TMG intrusion prevention (NIS) and malware inspection systems to identify threats in real time? Here's how:
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Hosting Multiple Web Sites On A Single Host with IIS and Forefront TMG

This article describes the different methods of hosting multiple web sites on a single host using Microsoft IIS, and publishing web sites with Forefront TMG
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Mitigate DNS Exploits with Forefront TMG

Etienne Liebetrau takes you through some simple DNS hacking techniques, and explains how Forefront TMG can help protect against DNS exploits.
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Forefront TMG End Of Life and What It Means For TMG Reporter

Today Microsoft announced that they are discontinuing Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG). So what does this mean for Fastvue TMG Reporter?
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Mobile Friendly Forefront TMG Forms Based Authentication Template

If you're using TMG Forms Based Authentication with Web Publishing Rules, download our mobile friendly, responsive authentication form template.
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Block Instant Messaging Traffic Using Forefront TMG's HTTP Filter

You can use Forefront TMG's HTTP Filter to block instant messaging traffic communicating with valid HTTP over port 80.
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Everything You Need To Know About User Agents

This article outlines how security administrators can utilize User Agent strings to identify applications, operating systems and potential security issues.
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Monitor Bandwidth and Limit Internet Speed in Forefront TMG 2010

This article explains how to use Forefront TMG with TMG Reporter and Bandwidth Splitter to effectively monitor bandwidth and manage Internet speed.
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Deploying TMG Reporter on Virtual Machines and Monitoring Server Performance

This article shares some enterprise performance statistics and monitoring techniques when running TMG Reporter in Hyper-V virtual machines.
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How To Fix Windows Live Messenger 2011 Forefront TMG Login Issues

You may get login issues when using Windows Live Messenger 2011 behind a proxy solution such as Forefront TMG. To fix this...
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Useful Scripts to Disable Logging for System Policy Rules in Forefront TMG 2010

You cannot disable logging for Forefront TMG System Policy Rules with TMG's Management Console GUI. But you can use the following scripts:
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How to Configure Forefront TMG Malware Alerts

Receiving malware alerts via email is easy using Forefront TMG 2010's Malware Scanning and Fastvue TMG Reporter's alerting system.
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How To Secure And Publish the Fastvue TMG Reporter Web Site

How to secure the Fastvue TMG Reporter website using Windows Authentication, IIS Authorization Rules, and Forefront TMG Web Publishing Rules
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How Kerberos and CARP Affect Forefront TMG Reporting

When using both Kerberos and CARP in Forefront TMG 2010 SP2 you may see domain accounts using a lot of bandwidth in your TMG Reports.
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The Microsoft Forefront TMG Firewall service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this

Here's the solution to the error: Microsoft Forefront TMG Firewall service terminated unexpectedly. Application filter module w3filter.dll generated an exception code C0000005 in address when function CompleteAsyncIO was called.
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Customizing Website Categories with Forefront TMG URL Filtering

Customizing website categories and reporting on productivity is simple with Forefront TMG's URL Filtering. Etienne Liebetrau explains how.
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Reporting on Celestix MSA Threat Management Gateway Appliances

Celestix MSA Series appliances run Forefront Threat Management Gateway and deliver superior TMG Reporting with Fastvue TMG Reporter.
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Forefront TMG Enterprise Logging with Remote SQL Server

This article describes some of the challenges and benefits of configuring Forefront TMG to log to a remote SQL Database.
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Reporting on Forefront TMG's Remote SQL Database

Fastvue TMG Reporter now supports importing logs when Forefront TMG is logging to a Remote SQL Database.
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Tips for Healthy Logging and Reporting in Forefront TMG 2010

This article describes how to ensure Forefront TMG's logging and reporting are performing at the highest levels.
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How to Manage Forefront TMG's Cache with CacheDir

This article describes how to exclude a site from being served from Forefront TMG's cache using CacheDir.
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Enterprise Reporting Challenges with Forefront TMG 2010

Forefront TMG 2010 Enterprise Edition faces some unique challenges when it comes to Enterprise Reporting. Richard Hicks (MCP) explains.
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Fastvue TMG Reporter's System Requirements Explained

This article explains Fastvue TMG Reporter's System Requirements for the best Forefront TMG Reporting experience.
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Logging Improvements in Forefront TMG 2010

Richard Hicks discusses the logging improvements in Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 that address the numerous issues in Microsoft ISA Server.
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Understanding TMG Web Caching Concepts and Architectures

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The Best Forefront TMG Configuration for TMG Reporting

Here's some important Forefront TMG configuration details you should check to ensure you get the best reports.
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TMG Reporter 2.0 Is Here!

Fastvue TMG Reporter 2.0 is the fastest and easiest way to report on Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway.
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Fastvue TMG Reporter Beta Update 2.0.0.12

Fastvue TMG Reporter 2.0.0.12 includes faster reports for Microsoft Forefront TMG, improved Active Directory integration and more!
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TMG Reporter Beta Update (2.0.0.10)

TMG Reporting just got better with TMG Reporter 2.0.0.10. Real Time Dashboard, Easy Reporting and Alerts. Join the beta!
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TMG Reporter Beta (Update 2.0.0.7)

Real time reporting for Microsoft Forefront TMG just got better with our 2.0.0.7 build update for TMG Reporter v2.0.
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Announcing Fastvue TMG Reporter Version 2.0 Beta

TMG Reporter v2.0 is the newest and most simple way to monitor and report on your Microsoft Threat Management Gateway network.
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Discover what is going on in your home network. Simply.

Discover the finer details about what is going on in your network with Fastvue HOME's real time simple reports that anyone can understand.
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How to find which Forefront TMG Service Pack is installed

TMG lists the full version and build number in Help | About, so consult this list of build numbers to find your service pack or hot fix.
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How We Designed The Fastvue Dashboard

We set out to create a simple, useful real time network monitoring application. Here's some dashboard design lessons we learned on the way.
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Fastvue for TMG receives Silver Award on ISAServer.org

Fastvue has received the Silver Award on ISAServer.org for real time network monitoring of Microsoft TMG Networks.
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Installing and Configuring Microsoft Forefront TMG - Videos

This series of videos takes you through the process of installing and configuring Microsoft Threat Management Gateway.
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The Truth About the Anonymous User

So, you've configured an access policy to only allow authenticated traffic, yet the 'Anonymous' user is still logged! Here's why.
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We've Launched!!!

We've finally ripped the 'Beta' badge off Fastvue for TMG and the full release is now available for trial and purchase!
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Tell Us What You Think!

Fastvue TMG Reporter Beta Tester Survey. We'd love to know what you think of our software. Please take the survey.
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Our Support Center is Live!

Submit your feedback for Fastvue for TMG - real time analytics and alerting for Microsoft Threat Management Gateway.
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New Fastvue for TMG Build Available

Real time analytics and Alerting for Microsoft Forefront TMG just got a whole lot better!
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We've been fixing things!

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Woohoo! Our beta is ready

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