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.