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Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 enters beta stadium
012 months ago
Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 continues to deliver on the promise of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010, simplifying and improving endpoint protection while also greatly reducing infrastructure costs. It builds on System Center Configuration Manager, allowing customers to implement endpoint protection as part of a unified infrastructure for securing and managing physical, virtual, and mobile client environments. This shared infrastructure lowers ownership costs while providing improved visibility and control over endpoint management and security. New features in the beta release include:- Support for System Center Configuration Manager 2012- Role-based administration- More efficient delivery of security updates.
Authenticating Exchange Mail Applications using UAG RC0
02 years ago
Source: Microsoft Unified Access Gateway Team blog.
Secured messaging has just become easier with the recently announced RC0 version of Forefront UAG. Additional authentication methods are supported out of the box, simplifying the publishing process of back-end services, particularly Exchange mail.
Objective
Configure pre-authentication of Exchange mail applications, with no impact on the end-users, providing a seamless experience. Both the login process and the session itself are intact from an end-user perspective, having the extra layer of security with Exchange experience preserved.
Here is an illustration of the authentication entities:
[Figure 1. Authentication entities]
Schedule and Strategy Update for Forefront Endpoint Protection
02 years ago
by Bart Timmermans
in Forefront
Source: Microsoft Forefront Team blog
Today we are announcing a schedule and strategy update for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010, a component of the upcoming Forefront Protection Suite (previously codenamed “Stirling.”)
We are delaying the release Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 – anti-malware for Windows desktops and servers – until the second half of 2010. Based on customer feedback and market trends, we have made the strategic decision to build Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) on System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft’s solution to comprehensively assess, deploy, and update servers, clients, and devices. This approach better aligns our customers’ client management and security infrastructure, helping simplify deployment and reduce costs.
Forefront TMG ISP Redundancy Feature
02 years ago
by Bart Timmermans
in Forefront
Source: Microsoft Forefront TMG Team blog
On the TMG Team blog I found an interesting article about redundant ISP links.
Today, more and more businesses rely on their Internet Service Providers (ISP) to handle their outside Internet communications. Sending emails, browsing the web and any other web related actions are essential business infrastructure services that are only available as long as the ISP line is up and running.
Keeping a stable, available and reliable outside Internet connection is one of the critical tasks on every administrator’s check list.
Forefront TMG provides a new capability called ISP redundancy which enables utilizing not one, but two ISP links for external connectivity, either for traffic load balancing or as a failover backup.
This post explains an important aspect in the ISP Redundancy configuration: “Persistent Routing Rules”, which is required for smooth operation of the ISP redundancy feature, and explains the way TMG decides which connection will use which ISP.
Microsoft releases Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) RC0
02 years ago
Forefront UAG provides the following:
• Remote access: Using Forefront UAG you can allow and control access to internal resources and applications from a range of managed and unmanaged client endpoints.
• Application support: Forefront UAG provides broad application support for a wide range of Microsoft and third-party applications. Application optimizers, consisting of predefined settings and values, provide optimum settings for accessing a specific application via Forefront UAG.
• Access control: Forefront UAG provides granular access control, to ensure that only client endpoints complying with corporate health guidelines can access internal applications and resources.
• Authentication: Forefront UAG provides frontend and backend authentication mechanisms. Frontend authentication allows you to pre-authenticate users using a wide range of authentication mechanisms, ensuring that only authenticated traffic reaches published application servers. In addition, Forefront UAG provides a single sign-on experience for authentication to backend applications.
• Remote access: Using Forefront UAG you can allow and control access to internal resources and applications from a range of managed and unmanaged client endpoints.
• Application support: Forefront UAG provides broad application support for a wide range of Microsoft and third-party applications. Application optimizers, consisting of predefined settings and values, provide optimum settings for accessing a specific application via Forefront UAG.
• Access control: Forefront UAG provides granular access control, to ensure that only client endpoints complying with corporate health guidelines can access internal applications and resources.
• Authentication: Forefront UAG provides frontend and backend authentication mechanisms. Frontend authentication allows you to pre-authenticate users using a wide range of authentication mechanisms, ensuring that only authenticated traffic reaches published application servers. In addition, Forefront UAG provides a single sign-on experience for authentication to backend applications.
Find more information about Forefront UAG as follows:
• To read the Forefront UAG documentation, visit the Forefront UAG TechCenter library (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd861463.aspx)
• To read about up-to-date issues, visit the Forefront UAG Product Team blog (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=156512)
• For RC0 support issues, visit the Forefront UAG forum (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=156513)
Forefront UAG RC0 provides a number of new features, including support for migration from Forefront UAG Beta 2. If you want to migrate a Forefront UAG Beta 2 configuration to RC0, ensure that you run the UAG_RC0_4_0981_2.msp file after running Forefront UAG Setup.
Microsoft releases Forefront Identity Manager 2010 RC1
02 years ago
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 offers a comprehensive solution for managing identities, credentials, and identity-based access policies across heterogeneous environments. Users can create their own security and email distribution groups and decide who to include in those groups. They can reset their passwords without calling their help desk. IT Pros can use FIM to manage certificates and smart cards. FIM embeds self-help tools in Outlook so users can manage routine aspects of identity and access. FIM also gives IT professionals rich administrative tools and enhanced automation, and delivers .NET and Web Services–based extensibility for developers.
You can download the release candidate here.
Product information can be found here.
