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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

The Application Customization tab


The application customization is all about UAG's content parsing, part of which is the Host Address Translation (HAT) process. If you don't recall, this is the mechanism that iterates through web pages that UAG delivers to its users, looks for links and rewrites the URLs. This is done, of course, for every web application, but UAG also includes some specific templates for specific applications. For example, Outlook Web Access requires very specific changes to be made to the HTML code that is sent to the user and so do SharePoint and Microsoft CRM 4. In fact, you can take a look at this yourself by opening the file, HTTPS_WhlFiltAppWrap_ForPortal.xml, located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway\von\conf\WizardDefaults\AppWrapTemplates.

Don't be tempted to change this file, though! You can create a custom file to perform your own changes to data coming from an application, but this is beyond the scope of this book. It is discussed...