What is TMG client?
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What is TMG client?
The Forefront TMG client, often referred to as simply the “firewall client”, is a powerful tool that security administrators can use to control network communication on their network. It provides transparent proxy services for client applications that make use of the Winsock protocol.
What is TMG firewall?
Security features: Microsoft Forefront TMG is a firewall which can inspect network traffic (including web content, secure web content and emails) and filter out malware, attempts to exploit security vulnerabilities and content that does not match a predefined security policy.
How does Forefront TMG work?
Forefront TMG monitors requests and responses between the Internet and internal client computers, controlling who can access which computers on the corporate network. Forefront TMG also controls which computers on the Internet can be accessed by internal clients.
What replaced Microsoft TMG?
Other Forefront TMG replacement options include Dell SonicWall, Fortinet and Watchguard but at the time of writing, they do not include a way to log referrer URLs.
What is TMG application?
So what is TMG? Forefront TMG (Threat Management Gateway) formerly known as Microsoft Security and Acceleration Server (ISA server) is a Microsoft product that was typically used as a reverse proxy to securely publish internal applications and services to the internet.
What happened to Microsoft Forefront?
Microsoft is discontinuing support for and replacing Forefront, our licensed anti-virus application for SMU Windows machines, with a solution called Endpoint Protection. OIT will begin deploying this replacement product via LANDesk over the next several weeks.
What is TMG proxy?
The Forefront TMG Web proxy is an application filter on the Microsoft Firewall service. Functions provided by the Web proxy include: Parsing of HTTP protocol traffic. Support for HTTP 1.1 protocol features. Authentication of client requests.
