I’m sure many experienced Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 administrators out there already knows about this but I haven’t really been working with TMG for a while and recently discovered that you can actually check when your changes are actually active after they have been successfully applied.
Rather than sit around and wait a minute before you proceed with testing out, say, a new firewall policy, you can perform the following actions to determine whether your changes are now active:
Navigate to the Monitoring node and then click on the Configuration tab. Notice that the Configuration Status has a green checkbox and the status is labeled as Synced with the description:
Server configuration matches the stored configuration.
Proceed by clicking on the Refresh button on the right:
Notice that the server’s status is now labeled as Not Synced with the description:
Server configuration does not match the stored configuration.
Hitting the refresh button again a few times will show that the server’s status is now labeled as Updating with the description:
Server is updating configuration to match the stored configuration.
Hitting the refresh button again a few times will show that the server’s status is now labeled as Synced with the description back to:
Server configuration matches the stored configuration.
Using this method to determine when new configuration changes to the TMG are active is definitely better than waiting a predetermined amount of time.
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