Forefront UAG RTM documentation now live on TechNet

Published 13 January 10 12:15 PM

The complete library of Forefront UAG RTM content is now available on the Library tab of our Forefront UAG TechCenter.  This content release is the result of a joint effort coordinated by the UAG User Experience team, in conjunction with the product group, field and support engineers, our community and customers. Together we planned, developed and reviewed the library content, in order to expand and improve the UAG ITPro documentation experience.

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Source - Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway Product Team Blog : Forefront UAG RTM documentation now live on TechNet

Big news: Microsoft and HP team up to move IT forward

This morning Microsoft and HP announced a three-year, $250 million agreement to jointly deliver a new infrastructure-to-application model, advance cloud computing and generally reduce the costs and complexities of IT.

The press release, executive videos and other information about the agreement are available here.

This is a big commitment on the part of both companies, representing the industry’s most comprehensive technology stack integration to date. There are three main components to the agreement:

· A shared engineering roadmap to ensure strong integration between hardware and software - both on premises and in the cloud.

· Joint solutions to optimize and simplify the deployment, management and health of the datacenter.

· Investment in joint sales, service and channel partner programs

Virtualization is (of course) at the center of the partnership. New solutions based on HP Converged Infrastructure with Microsoft Hyper-V and applications will enable customers to speed up implementation time, reduce unplanned downtime, and lower network/cabling infrastructure costs. And they will help customers deliver service-based infrastructure and the foundation for cloud computing.

Windows Virtualization Team Blog : Big news: Microsoft and HP team up to move IT forward

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection Blog

The official blog of the Forefront Server Protection product team.

Forefront DNSBL… Yeah or Nay?

As you might guess, DNSBL stands for DNS Blocklist. While it’s not a new technology, the usefulness of various DNS/RBL blocklists in fighting spam is indisputably immense. Over the years I’ve heard both the success stories from folks who implemented RBLs in their Exchange server deployments, and I’ve heard some horror stories from the folks who’s IPs were maliciously or mistakenly added to RBLs and the difficulties they had working with blocklist providers to delist their IPs from the RBLs. Another contributing factor to the overall painful experience with RBLs is the fact that you need to configure them with appropriate response codes and delisting logic etc. It’s manual work and as such is very error-prone. Also, some of the blocklist providers will expose their lists for free to small customers only. For example, they will allow only a certain number of queries against the blocklist per day and if the query volume exceeds the allowed (and very small in reality) free amount they will either block the queries (firewall) or ask the customer to receive the blocklists via paid subscription. If you are going to use a free DNS blocklist, you need to make adjustments (lower expectations) regarding the quality of service. Considering these factors, some Exchange admins prefer to stay away from blocklists because they just do not want to go through the headache generally associated with maintaining multiple RBL providers’ configurations.

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Source - Microsoft Forefront Server Protection Blog : Forefront DNSBL… Yeah or Nay?