Another example, is searching for
protocols, typing ftp or
protocol: ftp , inside the search textbox will reveal any rule that has an element such as
a text or a Protocol that matches the word ftp.


As you can see, you can use free
text within your search, the same way you use Web Search
engines ( ex. google , bing, yahoo , etc ...), however,
you can not use wild characaters in your search as it is not
supported yet. Maybe later with an update, using wild
characters would become supported.
More examples, if you want to search
the columns From and To
, searching the Source Network, you can
use : from:internal

searching for Destination Network :

as for rules , searching for action:deny

going more deeper, the search
feature does not search only what is included under each
column, but it also searches insides their content. For
example searching for elmajdal.net, as
you can see, elmajdal.net is not mentioned under the
Name, Action, Protocols, From/Listeners, To, Condition
or the Description columns, however, it can be found
inside the Dev Websites Domain Name Set


The Search query can be a
combination of attributes, for example below I'm
searching in the action and the user columns. My search
will return all the deny rules that have the user Tarek
listed into them.

You will have to be aware, that wild
characters at the moment are not yet support. As you can see
below, I'm searching for Tarek , and i typed tar* , but the
search didn't return anything as wild characters are not
supported yet.

If you want to learn more about the
Search Feature , click on the Examples button,
which will open the
Firewall policy filter website :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd897127.aspx

Summary
If you are one of those TMG administrators that
have tens and maybe hundreds of rules in your TMG
server, then the new Search feature in TNMG 2010 is your
life saver. No more digging into each rule to find out
the information your are looking after, just type your
search query, in free text or search for the different
columns attributes, and you will be happy to find the
info you are looking for in no time.
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