14 DAY TRIAL // On the heels of the official release of Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010, Microsoft has made available for download additional resources aimed at the developers that want to enhance the security solution. Through the Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Tools & Software Development Kit, devs can get access not only to the SDK but also to the diagnostics tools, as well as additional utilities for Forefront TMG 2010.
Microsoft is offering Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 in two flavors, the Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. The security solution, part of the company’s Business Ready Security strategy along with Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG), is essentially designed as a secure web gateway. Corporate customers can leverage TMG 2010 in order to ensure that their network is secure in the context in which employees surf the Internet from inside the company.
TMG 2010 is the evolution of ISA Server 2006, bringing to the table new features including URL filtering, anti-malware, and intrusion-prevention technologies. Microsoft underlines that the security solution is set up to offer protection against malware, malicious web sites and software vulnerabilities.
According to Microsoft, Forefront TMG 2010 Tools & Software Development Kit offer developers the following components:
“- ADAM Sites Tool for Forefront TMG Enterprise Edition - Use the ADAM Sites Tool (AdamSites.exe) to configure Configuration Storage servers, which use Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM).
- Auto Discovery Configuration Tool for Forefront TMG - Use the Auto-Discovery Configuration Tool (AdConfigPack.exe) to configure Active Directory with a marker key that points to your Forefront TMG server. This key is used by the Firewall Client to locate the Forefront TMG server and connect to it.
- Cache Directory Tool for Forefront TMG - Use the Cache Directory Tool (CacheDir.exe) to view real-time cache contents, save information about the current cache contents to a file, and mark obsolete items that should not be served from the cache.
- CertTool for TMG - CertTool.exe helps you deploy the certificates required to authenticate communications between TMG Server array members and the Configuration Storage server in a number of TMG deployment scenarios.
- DNS Cache Tool for Forefront TMG - Use the DNS Cache Tool (Dnstools.exe) on a Forefront TMG server to display the contents of the Domain Name System (DNS) cache and to delete entries in the DNS cache.
- EE Single Server Conversion tool for Forefront TMG - Use this tool (EESingleServerConversion.exe) to help you migrate a standalone server running either ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition or ISA Server 2006 Enterprise Edition to Forefront TMG in standalone mode. This tool converts the exported configuration of such a server to be Standard Edition-compatible.
- MSDEToText Tool for Forefront TMG - Use this tool (MSDEToText.exe) to convert Forefront TMG SQL Server logs into a text file, or to display their contents on the screen.
- Remote Access Quarantine Tool for Forefront TMG - Use this tool (RQSUtils.exe) to prepare Forefront TMG as an RQS listener component.
- RSA Test Authentication Utility for Forefront TMG - Use the RSA Test Authentication Utility (SdTestPack.exe) to verify that a computer running Forefront TMG can authenticate to a computer running RSA Authentication Manager.
- Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) Update for Forefront TMG Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition - Use the Forefront TMG Security Configuration Wizard Update to add the Microsoft® Forefront TMG Standard Edition and ISA Server 2006 Enterprise Edition server roles to the Security Configuration Wizard (SCW).
- Forefront TMG 2010 SDK - The Forefront TMG software development kit includes headers, libraries, tools, samples and documentation to enable developers and system administrators to deploy, configure, customize, and extend their Forefront TMG environment. Note that documentation of some COM elements is incomplete.”
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Tools & Software Development Kit is available for download here.
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 is available for download here.
Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server is available for download here.