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One of the problems causing TMG to log to LLQ instead of the database is the presence of orphaned databases in the local SQL Server instance.
In other words you may have some databases that are registered on the local SQL Server but the corresponding .mdf and .ldf files are missing from the disk. This may occur if the files were manually deleted, the volume with the files are no longer available or for other reasons.

Today, as a result of our effort to better align security and protection solutions with the workloads and applications they protect, Microsoft is announcing changes to the roadmaps of some of the security solutions made available under the Forefront brand.

Autoruns v11.34: This release of Autoruns fixes a bug that caused it to not show some Internet Explorer extensions.

Microsoft’s own Junaid Jan (Security Support Escalation Engineer - Forefront Edge Team) recently wrote a great article in our TechNet Wiki about an issue where an enterprise node is incorrectly added in the Forefront TMG 2010 management console after you run a repair on Forefront TMG 2010 SP1 Update 1. When this happens, you won't be able to add that server to an array because it thinks it's already part of an array. To fix it we need to install TMG 2010 SP1 Update 1 Rollup 3 and run a script as well.

Windows Azure’s compute platform, which includes Web Roles, Worker Roles, and Virtual Machines, is based on machine virtualization. It’s the deep access to the underlying operating system that makes Windows Azure’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) uniquely...(read more)

I can hardly believe it’s been almost four months since we announced the foundation of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Boy, have we been busy: Redis, JQuery Mobile, OData, HTTP 2.0, Doctrine, Symfony, Apache Solr, Windows Azure tools for Mac and Linux, Eclipse, Apache Cordova, MongoDB, CouchDB, EntityFramework, ASP.net MVC 4, Web API, Web Pages, WebRTC, Wordpress… the list goes on, and the road ahead of us is nothing short of amazing. We are heading towards one of the most important years in Microsoft history and everyone in MS Open Tech is excited and busy advancing our journey into openness.

As noted on the Openness@Microsoft blog this morning by Anandeep Pannu, Senior Program Manager for the Open Source Technical Center: