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Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook

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Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook

Overview of this book

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is the latest in a line of Application Publishing (Reverse Proxy) and Remote Access (VPN) Server products. The broad set of features and technologies integrated into UAG makes for a steep learning curve. Understanding all the features and abilities of UAG is a complex task that can be daunting even to experienced networking and security engineers. This book is the first to be dedicated solely to Microsoft Forefront UAG. It guides you step-by-step throughout all the stages of deployment, from design to troubleshooting. Written by the absolute experts who have taken part of the product’s development, official training and support, this book covers all the primary features of UAG in a friendly style and a manner that is easy to follow. It takes you from the initial planning and design stage, through deployment and configuration, up to maintenance and troubleshooting. The book starts by introducing UAG's features and and abilities, and how your organization can benefit from them. It then goes on to guide you through planning and designing the integration of the product into your own unique environment. Further, the book guides you through the process of publishing the various applications, servers and resources - from simple web applications to complex client/server based applications. It also details the various VPN technologies that UAG provides and how to take full advantage of them. The later chapters of the book educate you with common routine “upkeep” tasks like monitoring, backup and troubleshooting of common issues. Finally, the book includes an introduction to ASP, which some of the product's features are based on, and can help the advanced administrator with enhancing and customizing the product.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

What happens when you add a trunk?


When you create a trunk, whether it is HTTP or HTTPS, several things occur that you might want to be aware of.

The activation process automatically creates a new website within IIS, the built-in Web Server that is included with every version of Windows Server since the dark ages (actually, Microsoft's first web server was developed in Scotland and released as a free add-on for Windows NT 3.51, but you know what we mean). If you inspect your server after adding a trunk to it, using the IIS Management console , you will discover that it has several websites on it. Before we go on, we need to make this clear once again—do not make any manual changes to the IIS configuration, unless specifically instructed to do so by a Microsoft support document or official representative. UAG can get seriously offended if you meddle in its romantic relationship with IIS, and blow up on you. In fact, even keeping the IIS management console open while a configuration is being...