Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 SP2

Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) enables businesses by allowing employees to safely and productively use the Internet for business without worrying about malware and other threats. It provides multiple layers of continuously updated protections that are integrated into a unified, easy to manage gateway, reducing the cost and complexity of Web security.


The Forefront TMG solution includes two separately licensed components:

Forefront TMG server that provides URL filtering, antimalware inspection, intrusion prevention, application- and network-layer firewall and HTTP/HTTPS inspection in a single solution

Forefront TMG Web Protection Service that provides the continuous updates for malware filtering and access to cloud-based URL filtering technologies aggregated from multiple Web security vendors to protect against the latest Web-based threats.

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008

Minimum system requirements:
o Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2
o A computer with 2 core (1 CPU x dual core) 64-bit processor
o 2 gigabytes (GB) or more of memory
o 2.5 GB of available hard disk space. This is exclusive of hard disk space that you want to use for caching or for temporarily storing files during malware inspection
o One local hard disk partition that is formatted with the NTFS file system
o One network adapter that is compatible with the computer's operating system, for communication with the Internal network
o An additional network adapter for each network connected to the Forefront TMG server

Recommended system requirements:
o Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2
o A computer with 4 core (2 CPU x dual core or 1 CPU x quad core) 64-bit processor
o 4 gigabytes (GB) or more of memory
o 2.5 GB of available hard disk space. This is exclusive of hard disk space that you want to use for caching or for temporarily storing files during malware inspection
o Two disk for system and TMG logging, and one for caching and malware inspection
o One network adapter that is compatible with the computer's operating system, for communication with the Internal network
o An additional network adapter for each network connected to the Forefront TMG server