Enterprise Management

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Enterprise Edition and ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition supported the following functionality, which is not available in Forefront TMG Medium Business Edition:

• Can be deployed in multiple-server arrays for better scalability, performance, fault tolerance, and centralized management.
• Can use the Cache Array Routing Protocol (CARP) to efficiently balance the load of storing and retrieving cached information in an array containing multiple Forefront TMG computers.
• Provides integration with Network Load Balancing (NLB) for configuring Network Load Balancing clusters within Forefront TMG.
• Supports two levels of configuration management. For example, an array policy is applied to all the servers in an entire array, and an enterprise policy can be applied to one or more arrays in the organization.
• Has no restriction on the number of processors on the Forefront TMG computer.

When enterprise management is enabled, enterprise and array configuration settings are stored centrally. Each Forefront TMG computer in an enterprise obtains the enterprise configuration settings and the array configuration settings for its array from the central server and maintains a locally stored effective configuration that is derived from the enterprise and array configurations.

Some properties, methods, parameters, and values are available only when enterprise management is enabled. The reference sections make note of each item that is available only when enterprise management is enabled. Lists of these items are provided in Forefront TMG Administration in Medium Business Edition.

This section includes the following topics:

• Enterprise Configuration
• Enterprise Policies
• Enterprise Networks

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Build date: 11/30/2009