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Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization

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Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization

Overview of this book

While UAG is built to integrate with many environments and publish dozens of application types, many organizations require a certain level of customization to meet their needs. With this book in hand, you will be equipped to deal with these types of customization scenarios, and you will be confident in using such workarounds without hassle and trial and error. Written by some of the leading experts on UAG, "Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization" covers the most complex and challenging options for customizing UAG in a way that is friendly and easy to follow. It walks you through various customization tasks, including explanations and code samples, as well as creative ideas for troubleshooting your work. Until now, only a few of the extensions to UAG's services have been publicly available, and most were only known to a select few. Now, this can include you! Throughout this book, you will tackle how to change the system's look-and-feel, deal with advanced authentication schemes and write special functions that need to be executed as part of the client interaction. With "Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization", you too can learn how to customize various aspects of UAG's functionality to enhance your organization or customers' experience.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Additional files you can customize


In the various chapters, we have referred to many files you can or cannot customize, while also having discussed the special CustomUpdate folders. You may have already noticed that there are close to 50 different folders out there, but that doesn't mean you can just drop any file in there and it will be eaten up by UAG. In fact, only certain files of the default file sets are supported for customization. This doesn't mean that Microsoft Customer Support will support anything you change to those files that are supported, just that UAG has the existing code to be able to parse those files. You might find yourself wondering, then, which files are actually customizable and which aren't. The answer to this is that the files that are supported get called by a special function named include Application. You can see that function in several files. For example, here it is in \Von\InternalSite\Login.inc:

This format tells UAG to look for a file named after the...