The URL and Destination Host Name columns in the web proxy log of Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 may be displayed as unreadable values. This problem occurs when users access websites by using an internationalized domain name (IDN) and the log entries are retrieved from disk.
Note IDNs are domain names that may contain Unicode characters and are accessed by using Punycode transcription. Threat Management Gateway converts the Punycode name into the Unicode representation when the log entries are viewed in the logging view in the Forefront TMG Management snap-in of the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). However, when the log entries are retrieved from disk, any non-ASCII characters in the Unicode string are replaced with a question mark (?), as we explain in the "Cause" section.
Note IDNs are domain names that may contain Unicode characters and are accessed by using Punycode transcription. Threat Management Gateway converts the Punycode name into the Unicode representation when the log entries are viewed in the logging view in the Forefront TMG Management snap-in of the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). However, when the log entries are retrieved from disk, any non-ASCII characters in the Unicode string are replaced with a question mark (?), as we explain in the "Cause" section.