Backing up a Threat Management Gateway using Backup Exec

Everyone can have some trouble using Backup Exec to backup their Threat Management Gateway 2010. TMG uses a different range of dynamic ports from the standard Windows Server installations. Since Windows Vista the new default start port is 49152. The default end port is 65535. Earlier versions of Windows used 1025 through 5000. The new … Continue reading "Backing up a Threat Management Gateway using Backup Exec"

TMG Compression broke my site

Microsoft Threat Management Gateway (TMG) should make publishing websites easy. Generally it is. We had a configuration as shown below: This should work like a charm. Unfortunately it did not in Internet Explorer 9. Upon testing the published site we noticed that some of the SharePoint functionality was not working as intended; Menu functions were … Continue reading "TMG Compression broke my site"

How not to create redundancy in your Exchange

When I was at a client the other day I encountered the following: As you can see the Exchange environment in itself already contains a single point of failure. Namely the Exchange-01 server who solemnly functions as a client access and transport hub. The two database servers however are both made high available through the … Continue reading "How not to create redundancy in your Exchange"