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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

Supported platforms


To accommodate multiple operating systems and clients, the client components are available in two versions. One is based on ActiveX technology, and the other on Java. This allows UAG to support Windows platforms running Internet Explorer, but also the Firefox and Safari browsers running on Windows, and Firefox and Safari running on Macintosh, Linux 32 bit releases (Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu). UAG can accept connections from additional platforms, such as mobile phones, but the client components are not supported for them.

For Windows-based systems, the client components support both 32 bit systems, as well as 64 bit Vista and Windows 7 systems, although for 64 bit systems, there are some limitations. The limitation is that for 64 bit systems, only 32 bit applications are supported. Wait—What!??! Well, that's how this works. This means that you can use SSL tunneling, but only for 32 bit code running in the WOW64 32-bit emulation system that 64 bit Windows systems...