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Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook

By : Erez Ben-Ari, Ran Dolev, Erez Y Ben
Book Image

Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook

By: Erez Ben-Ari, Ran Dolev, Erez Y Ben

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

Summary


In this chapter, we have talked about preparing your environment for the deployment of UAG, and addressed the considerations that are required to pave the path for a successful roll out. For many experienced IT administrators, UAG may seem to be just another server to install and squeeze into their already busy schedule, but UAG is a unique product in its abilities, and also in its requirements. Bringing up a server to host a simple web application can be accomplished quite easily, but that rarely ends there. Most organizations, when discovering how UAG empowers their home and mobile users to accomplish so much remotely, start piling on more and more applications and requirements, and at that point, any cracks in the initial design may show up. For example, setting up a SharePoint server may seem simple. After all, it's just a website, right? Not so fast. We soon discover (and will discuss this in Chapter 4) that the advanced code that makes SharePoint's content so dynamic and rich may also cause quite a headache if hostnames were not designed properly. In that case, an organization may find that it needs to reconfigure SharePoint's AAM settings, fiddle with DNS and in extreme conditions even reinstall the SharePoint server to allow it to be published perfectly. Will this happen to you? We hope not, so read Chapter 4 carefully (in fact, reading the entire book carefully won't hurt either) and don't rush into publishing the UAG portal before you have considered the various scenarios that can develop.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to install UAG with the various SKUs that are available. We will discuss the prerequisites in more detail and go over the installation procedure step-by-step, as well as tips and suggestions on avoiding the most common mistakes.