Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway Medium Business Processor
License is available through the Microsoft Open License Program.
Forefront Threat Management Gateway Medium Business Edition (TMG MBE) is a
comprehensive and integrated edge security gateway that helps provide protection
from multiple Internet-based threats, secure connectivity, and simplified
management, for both the headquarters and the branch offices.
TMG MBE builds on top of existing ISA Server functionality and delivers a 64-bit
Windows Server 2008 compatible product with new protection capabilities,
including optional Web antimalware, as well as enhancements to the UI,
management, and reporting. TMG plays a critical role in the overall Forefront
vision of providing protection across client, server, and edge.
TMG MBE is a critical security and protection component of Windows Essential
Business Server, and has been designed to help provide comprehensive threat
management, secure Internet access, and secure remote access for small to medium
size organizations (up to 300 users).
Forefront Threat Management Gateway Medium Business provides value to IT
managers, network administrators, and information security professionals who are
concerned about the security, performance, manageability, or reduced cost of
network operations.
- Unified Threat Management
TMG MBE includes a fully featured corporate firewall capability, and adds a
Unified Threat Management (UTM) capability to the Essential Business Server
(EBS) installation. The value comes through the tight integration of the
different UTM components, as well as with the other applications and solutions
encompassing EBS. TMG MBE implements a Unified Threat Management solution by
utilizing all of its protection and remote access features. TMG MBE provides a
comprehensive security solution, particularly attractive to small and midsize
organizations.
- Secure Application Publishing
TMG MBE provides easy and controlled remote access to internal resources, data,
and applications. TMG MBE provides the access capabilities to more securely
publish Microsoft Exchange Server (Outlook Web Access) and Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server. Customers who need to publish a range of applications, need
granular policy control of resource access, require additional endpoint
security, and need a customizable portal experience for end users, should
evaluate the comprehensive access capabilities delivered by Microsoft
Intelligent Application Gateway.
Licensing: Forefront TMG MBE is licensed
in the processor licensing model. Under this model, a license is required for
each physical or virtual processor accessed by an operating system environment
running ISA Server. This license does not require any device or user CALs.