Forefront Threat Management Gateway has been released to manufacture and now its available for download. Many people already started to test it and some of them have installed the evaluation version in production environment. The common question that I daily receive through email or I see on the forums is "how many days will TMG 2010 evaluation version last for, and how we can upgrade it to the full version ?" In this article, I will be answering these questions and will show you to how to upgrade the evaluation version to the full (RTM) version of TMG 2010.
The installation wizard of TMG 2010 evaluation version does not inform you about the evaluation period. Will, the answer is easy, TMG 2010 evaluation version will work for 120 days. So if you installed TMG 2010 evaluation version, and later on you decided to upgrade it to the RTM version of TMG, unfortunately, its not a matter of just typing the product key and then the evaluation version will become fully licensed. However, the good news, is that you can simply perform an in-place upgrade. So lets do it : Insert the TMG 2010 RTM DVD into your server's DVD drive, or if you have already copied the installation files to your hard disk, then simply double click on autorun.hta, this will launch the Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 installer. Click on Run Installation Wizard. We don't need to run the preparation tool as TMG is already installed. On the Welcome to the Installation Wizard for Microsoft Forefront TMG, click Next If you are asked to enter the Product Key, type it and then click on Next On the Ready to Install the Program page, click Install Be informed that during this operation, few services will be stopped and then restarted. Eventually, the installation wizard will be completed, and you once you receive this page, then you have completed upgrading your evaluation version of TMG 2010 to a licensed RTM version. Ok... now comes a common question, how can I verify that the evaluation version is now a licensed one ? Well, unfortunately, you can not see any difference between the evaluation or the licensed version, and we will not be able to verify, neither by a version number nor by a product ID number !! Summary The evaluation version of Forefront Threat Management Gateway works for 120 days. At any time, if you decided to upgrade the evaluation version to a fully licensed one, this can be easily done by having an in-place upgrade
The installation wizard of TMG 2010 evaluation version does not inform you about the evaluation period. Will, the answer is easy, TMG 2010 evaluation version will work for 120 days. So if you installed TMG 2010 evaluation version, and later on you decided to upgrade it to the RTM version of TMG, unfortunately, its not a matter of just typing the product key and then the evaluation version will become fully licensed. However, the good news, is that you can simply perform an in-place upgrade. So lets do it :
Ok... now comes a common question, how can I verify that the evaluation version is now a licensed one ? Well, unfortunately, you can not see any difference between the evaluation or the licensed version, and we will not be able to verify, neither by a version number nor by a product ID number !!
Summary
The evaluation version of Forefront Threat Management Gateway works for 120 days. At any time, if you decided to upgrade the evaluation version to a fully licensed one, this can be easily done by having an in-place upgrade
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So how DO we verify if the installed version is a trial/evaluation copy?
Surely we're not expected to grab the install disc and go through this process 'just to make sure' ...
How about the configuration of TMG that I have been setting and config? Any change or keep the same after we follow
BR,
Khemarin Set
This is quite surprising, the first thing is TMG cannot be upgraded by just entering the product key secondly it will not reveal its version number.
I tried this with TMG Enterprise, which is configured in an 2-node array in single network adapter mode. After clicking Next and then Install on the Wizard, I get the status message "Verifying that the computer IP address is in the Internal network of the array." And then an error "The Internal Network is missing. Verify that the Internal Network has been defined." The installation then fails without completing.
After some research, I found that the VL install media was without service packs, and I was trying to install over the version that already had SP1, SP1 U1, and SP2. I slip streamed the service packs and updates into the ISO, and everything worked great!
www.elmajdal.net/.../Slipstreaming_TMG_Server_2010_with_SP1_and_SU1.aspx