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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
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Preface

Portal application icons


Besides the graphics used by the various ASP pages, another common need is to have custom icons for applications. As you probably know, you can specify the icon name as part of any application's configuration, in the Portal Link tab.

However, keep in mind that you need to create four icons, not just one: one file for the primary home-screen icon, a smaller version for the navigation bar, and another set of both for disabled applications. The disabled icons are used when UAG blocks access to the application, such as when a portal has RemoteApps published and is being accessed from Firefox. You can go ahead and inspect the /PortalHomePage/Images/AppIcons folder to see these existing default icons.

The following screenshot shows the setting that defines the application's icon URL, and the four types of icons that are used:

When creating your icons, you can use GIF, JPG or PNG formats, and while you can use any image size, it's best to use the native size, rather than...