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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
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Preface

Integrating custom detection with endpoint policies


Naturally, just having a custom script is not going to accomplish anything. It's the endpoint policy integration that's the point of all of this. However, one must understand how endpoint policies work to take full advantage of this. We recommend you read Chapter 8, Endpoint Policies, from Packt Publishing's Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook, which discusses endpoint policies, to get the basics of creating and assigning policies.

As we illustrated earlier, the way the detection script sends information to UAG is with the results function. Each detection function makes a decision, and runs a command similar to the following:

Results("Screen_Saver_Running") = True

So, throughout running the entire script, several hundreds of these are run. Some return Boolean values of true or false, and other deliver strings. All of these are collected by UAG for that session, and so the endpoint policy evaluation engine has access to...