Publishing rules

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Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway uses publishing rules to provide access to corporate servers from hosts located in other networks. Publishing is often used to make corporate servers available to external Internet clients, but it can also be used to make servers available to internal corporate clients located in different networks. For example, you might place a server in a perimeter network and publish it to corporate clients in the internal network.

Forefront TMG supports two types of publishing rules:

  • Web server publishing rules. Web publishing rules allow you to publish content to external users making HTTP and HTTPS requests. Forefront TMG provides a Web listener that listens for Web requests from clients on an IP address and port and preauthenticates clients if required. Use Web publishing to publish internal Web servers, including Web sites, Outlook Web Access, and SharePoint. For more information, see Overview of Web publishing concepts.
  • Server publishing rules. Server publishing rules map requests for non-HTTP servers located in Forefront TMG networks from clients located in other networks. Use server publishing to publish servers not using Web protocols. For example: DNS servers or FTP servers. For more information, see Overview of non-HTTP server publishing.