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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

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Other than SQL and other databases, you can create a custom repository to interact with pretty much anything. We already mentioned that you can interact with any COM API that is built into Windows, and another such example is ServerXMLHTTP, which allows your ASP code to interact directly with web servers. You can use it to send GET and POST requests, and retrieve the response body or headers.

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