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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

Remote Desktop RDG templates


RDG is a new feature of Windows Server 2008, which can work independently of UAG, but with UAG, it is easier to use, because the user just launches the RDP application from the portal, and there's no need to configure the client with the server's address or move around the RDP configuration files. When you install UAG, it automatically configures the RDG service, and then publishes it using one of the following templates:

  • RemoteApp

  • Remote Desktop (Predefined)

  • Remote Desktop (User Defined)

RemoteApp is a new feature of Windows 2008 as well, which allows the user to connect to a single application using the remote desktop protocol. Instead of having a full connection to the desktop, only the application is running in a window. To the user, it looks as if the application is running on their own computer, but in fact, it's running on the remote computer, and only its display is sent to the client machine. For example, a customer can use his office Email program, with...