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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

Building SSL-VPN templates


The SSL-VPN application templates are stored in two master files on the UAG server. The first file is<UAG Path>\von\conf\wizarddefaults\WizardDefaultParam.Ini, and the second is<UAG Path>\von\conf\SSLVPNTemplates.xml. Collectively, both these files provide the necessary data and application-specific information that allows UAG to build and publish resources to a trunk. The WizardDefaultParam file contains a list of predefined application templates (not just SSL-VPN ones), and their associated parameter definitions.

The following screenshots are just two extracts from this file:

As you can see, each application has somewhat different parameters, some of which are rather self-explanatory. For example, the MaxHTTPBodySize and ActivateSmugglingProtection parameters will appear on the Web Server Security tab of the application properties window, while the Image parameter is populated in the Portal Link tab. On a UAG server running SP1 Update 1, you will...