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Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook

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Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook

Overview of this book

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is the latest in a line of Application Publishing (Reverse Proxy) and Remote Access (VPN) Server products. The broad set of features and technologies integrated into UAG makes for a steep learning curve. Understanding all the features and abilities of UAG is a complex task that can be daunting even to experienced networking and security engineers. This book is the first to be dedicated solely to Microsoft Forefront UAG. It guides you step-by-step throughout all the stages of deployment, from design to troubleshooting. Written by the absolute experts who have taken part of the product’s development, official training and support, this book covers all the primary features of UAG in a friendly style and a manner that is easy to follow. It takes you from the initial planning and design stage, through deployment and configuration, up to maintenance and troubleshooting. The book starts by introducing UAG's features and and abilities, and how your organization can benefit from them. It then goes on to guide you through planning and designing the integration of the product into your own unique environment. Further, the book guides you through the process of publishing the various applications, servers and resources - from simple web applications to complex client/server based applications. It also details the various VPN technologies that UAG provides and how to take full advantage of them. The later chapters of the book educate you with common routine “upkeep” tasks like monitoring, backup and troubleshooting of common issues. Finally, the book includes an introduction to ASP, which some of the product's features are based on, and can help the advanced administrator with enhancing and customizing the product.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Types of trunks


When creating a trunk, you can create trunks of two distinct types—HTTP (where traffic between the client and UAG is sent unencrypted as "clear-text") trunks and HTTPS (or "secure") trunks. The difference between these is simple—HTTP trunks are accessible by users over the HTTP protocol, while HTTPS trunks require the browser to communicate with encryption. Some UAG customers are perfectly fine with using HTTP trunks, but most customers prefer the more secure HTTPS trunks, because their users will be sending and receiving sensitive data over the link. From a technical perspective, a trunk is a website running on the IIS server that is active on the UAG server, and just like any other website in the world, it has an IP address and a TCP/IP port. If you have a single IP address assigned to the external NIC, you can choose to publish a single HTTP or HTTPS trunk on it. Naturally, you can choose to publish zero trunks, but for that, you don't need this book, or any book, really...