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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

Basic trunk configuration


The main trunk configuration screen is something we see constantly, so before moving forward, let's review some of the things we can do with it. This screen is the one that shows the trunk's public host name, IP, port, and more. We typically set these when using the Create New Trunk Wizard, and some of them can be changed here. You can type a new public host name for your trunk, or choose another IP from those configured on the computer, and if NLB is enabled, you can also select if the trunk will be using integrated or non-integrated NLB. You may be disappointed to learn that you cannot just select any TCP port, but are limited to port 443 for HTTPS trunks, and port 80 for HTTP trunks. The port selection option in the UAG console doesn't really do anything, but it exists there since with UAG's predecessors, you could actually choose any port you wanted to use.

Another important setting is the Initial application . The default setting for this is the Portal, which...