1. Ensure your security products work better together. Forefront products are designed to work with your existing Microsoft infrastructure, such as Active Directory or Windows Update Services, which reduces barriers to deployment and helps enable easy distribution, updating, and enforcing of customized configurations policies.
2. Gain an in-depth security solution. By integrating with other Microsoft security products server applications, Forefront products can provide sophisticated application-layer data inspection and content security for critical servers.
3. Reduce the cost of deployment, training, and management. Because Forefront products use your existing infrastructure, they minimize the need for expensive training and retraining of administrative staff.
4. Use a single repository for event storage and analysis. All Forefront products use a common foundation of Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting and Analysis Services, which helps you avoid unnecessary and costly redundancies in the management and reporting infrastructure.
5. Get greater network coverage. Forefront products integrate with third-party security solutions.
6. Simplify management. Forefront products reduce the number of management consoles necessary, which helpsdecrease administrative time and complexity.
   
   
   

1. Comprehensive protection: Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server includes multiple scan engines from industry-leading security firms integrated in a single solution to help businesses protect their Exchange messaging environments from viruses, worms, and spam.
2. Optimized performance: Through deep integration with Exchange Server, scanning innovations, and performance controls, Forefront Security for Exchange Server helps protect your messaging environment while maintaining uptime and optimizing your server(s).
3. Simplified management: Forefront Security for Exchange Server enables administrators to manage configuration and operation, automated scan engine signature updates, and reporting at the server and enterprise level.
   
   
   

1. Securely publish content for remote access. ISA Server 2006 helps streamline the implementation providing security for corporate applications accessed over the Internet.
2. Connect and secure branch offices. ISA Server 2006 provides a robust way to securely expand corporate networks, reducing network costs by leveraging existing network connections.
3. Defend against external and internal Web-based threats. ISA Server 2006 is engineered to deliver stronger security to manage and protect your networks.
   
   
   

• Processor: 32-bit trial: x86 architecture-based computer 64-bit trial: x64 architecture-based computer with:
  · Intel Xeon or Intel processor that supports Intel Extended memory 64 technology (Intel EM64T) or
  · AMD Opteron or AMD Athlon 64 processor that supports AMD64 platform
• Operating system: Windows Server 2003 Memory: At least 512 MB of RAM; 1 GB of RAM recommended
• Memory: At least 512 MB of RAM; 1 GB of RAM recommended
• Hard disk: At least 300 MB required
  
  

ISA Server 2006

• Processor: 733 MHz Pentium III or higher
• Operating system: Windows Server 2003 32-bit operating system with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Windows Server 2003 R2 32-bit
• Memory: At least 512 MB of RAM
• Hard disk: NTFS-formatted local partition with 150 MB of available hard-disk space; additional space will be required for Web cache content
  
  

The Microsoft Forefront family of business security products help provide comprehensive protection and control over the security of your midsize business's network infrastructure. Designed to be centrally managed and integrated into IT infrastructure products such as Active Directory and Group Policies, Forefront helps your midsize business confidently meet new threats and increased business demands. Simplified management, reporting, analysis, and deployment enable administrators to protect your organization's information resources efficiently and provide secure access to applications and servers.

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