February 2009 - Posts - Tom Decaluwé

Interview video Of Ori Yosef, Forefront TMG Manager

Gives you a quick view on what to expect from TMG

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/1/8/4/2/TMGInterviewPM_edge.wmv

Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 11:22 PM by Tom Decaluwé | with no comments

BSOD Windows7 in Virtual PC

I’m preparing my labs for Techdays 2009 and even though i usually use vmware I decided to use Virtual PC for a change as this is an official MS event.

One of the OS’s I’ll be using is the windows7. The install goes fine, but after installing the vmtools I got a BSOD. This seems to be due to the VPC version i’m running. I was at level 6.0.156.0 but it seems you need 6.0.192.0 to run window7

You can find virtual PC 2007 SP1 version at this url

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=28C97D22-6EB8-4A09-A7F7-F6C7A1F000B5&displaylang=en#filelist

Posted Saturday, February 14, 2009 9:29 PM by Tom Decaluwé | with no comments

TMG beta2 and Exchange edge setup error

This weekend I installed my first TMG beta2 systems and ran into an unexpected error during the install of a TMG in conjunction with Exchange Edge server.

With the help of MS support we figured out what the issue was and it came from an unexpected side.

Here is what I got back from a very helpful guy at MS:

“Exchange and FSE developers have taken a look at your problem.
It looks like the issue is because the machine name contains an underscore (TMG_2). There's a bug in Exchange Edge, which is now being fixing.
Considering this, please try the installation again (first Exchange Edge, then TMG) on the machine without underscore in the name. Please keep me updated about the results. I would continue to investigate in case of failure.
Here is an article that suggests the syntax for a computer name. It doesn't mention underscore as a not allowed character, but it is not one of the recommended characters.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/d41efb5b-10db-42ba-85b8-6a5bef7fae311033.mspx”

With no particular reason I had given my TMG system the hostname TMG_2 and it seems “_” is not supported in Exchange Edge as a hostname. After renaming the system to TMG2 and reinstalling both Exchange edge and TMG beta2 all is fine.

I guess it’s one to remember ;-)

Posted Friday, February 13, 2009 12:23 AM by Tom Decaluwé | with no comments

TMG beta 2 is live

Well it went live last week friday and it's looking great ;-) There are a tone of new features since Beta1 the first being you can install stand alone or integrated with Exchange Edge .

I have done both installes:

- standalone => worked great

- integrated with exchange edge role => missfired but i'm checking in on this

I had a quick glance at the feature set, no testing yet but the things i'll be testing asap are:

- email filtering using exchange edge role

- outbound HTTPS filtering, yes, it looks like will have control over those SSL tunnels but i still need to test this new feature.

- the menu bar ontop now reflects all options in the task pain

- intrusian prevention that seems to know about alot of known vulenrabilities and kb's

- VOIP SIP support wizard

- Enhanced NAT and ISP link redundancy

- NAP integrated VPN

- ... I'm guessing much more ;-)