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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

UAG and certificate authentication


Getting to grips with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) can be a challenging task to say the least and it's certainly a subject we would encourage you to understand, but for now we'll assume you know your way around a Microsoft Enterprise Certificate Authority implementation.

It's from this server, whether a root CA or intermediate CA, that certificates will be issued and the two primary types that you're likely to see when working with UAG publishing and certificate authentication, are user certificates and machine certificates (also known as computer certificates). At a glance, they're not much different structurally, but in PKI terms, they serve different purposes. Their exact properties and usage scenarios can be observed through their respective source templates that reside on their issuing CA. Of the two, it is the user certificates that are required for this authentication scheme and the type of certificate template used to create these certificates...