Get the focused, scenario-based guidance you need to plan and deploy Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) as your network perimeter firewall. The evolution of Microsoft ISA Server, Forefront TMG provides multiple layers of continuously updated protections against the latest Web-based threats, including URL filtering, antimalware inspection, and intrusion prevention. Led by two members of the Microsoft Forefront team, you'll get pragmatic, inside insights into system components and capabilities; identify software, hardware, and business requirements; and step through essential planning and design considerations, including network topology, remote access, publishing rules, performance, administration, and more.
Yuri Diogenes is a Microsoft senior support escalation engineer specializing in Forefront Edge Security. He is coauthor of the Forefront Community Site "Tales from the Edge", writes Forefront security articles for Microsoft TechNet Magazine, and is a primary contributor to the Microsoft ISA Server Team Blog. Before joining Microsoft, Yuri was a network advisor for a Microsoft Gold Partner and taught Network and Operating System disciplines at the University in Brazil.
Dr. THOMAS W. SHINDER, MCSE, is a Microsoft MVP for Forefront Edge Security, the author of six highly regarded books on Microsoft ISA Server, and the administrator of the largest community of ISA and TMG firewall administrators on the Internet, with over 500 articles on the ISA and TMG firewalls and over 50,000 registered users. He has worked as a technology trainer, writer, and consultant since 1996, and has provided consultative security guidance to Fortune 500 companies.
Comments about Microsoft Press Deploying Microsoft® Forefront® Threat Management Gateway 2010:
This is a very interesting new series from MS Press. Short consise deployment guides. At 79 pages it's a fraction of the size of the TMG Admin companion it often references.
I was initially concered on how useful this would be, being so short and having gone thru the TMG Admin companion prior. What I ended up liking was in fact the length. As I install and demo Microsoft products as part of my job, not always the same set each week/month, I often get hold of the admin companions for reference. They are good books, don't get me wrong, but they are big - the TMG version is 1010 pages - and take time to wade through. This guide is great for getting to the deployment details quickly. Litterally you can read chapter 2 and be up and running.
There are two points on the downside I'd like to make, the first is minor the second depends on what you do with TMG after this guide.
So, point one, there is some repetition, I read chapter 1 and 2 on different days, and in Chapter 2 read a section that made me think I read this section before. Like I said, a minor point.
The other point is that you probably do need to get hold of the Admin Companion. If you work with TMG beyond deployment you will.
Also, note that the guide does reference several chapters in the companion as it talks about the features in Chapter 1. While introducing features such as NIS, HTTPS inspection and Malware Inspection very well, this guide will not cover configuration details.
So for me this guide is scores well on getting you going with TMG. If you want to get a quick view of what TMG does and get it going to try it, this is guide is ideal for.
