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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

Customizing SSTP


SSTP is one of the strongest features UAG offers, making it a fully-fledged VPN solution that does not require any preconfiguration of client computers. The configuration options for SSTP, though, are somewhat limited. For example, SSTP does not allow for split tunneling, nor does it allow for the client to register itself in DNS, which is very useful if you need to establish connections to non-managed clients.

However with a simple customization, these two can be achieved, as well as additional fine-grained control of UAG's SSTP. The secret to achieving this is in the fact that UAG uses a Phone Book (PBK) file to hold the settings used by the client. With other VPN servers, the user creates a VPN connection entry, which is saved inside the user's PBK file, rasphone.pbk, typically located at %AppData%\Microsoft\network\connections\Pbk. When UAG is in use, it creates a custom SSTP.pbk file, which is extracted from the file WhlClntProxy.cab, itself a part of the client components...