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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 URL Inspection tab


The URL Inspection tab is one of the most important ones, if security is high on your priority list. It controls the HTTP methods that UAG will allow, and the characters that will be permitted within URLs.

The top part of the tab shows, on the right, the currently available HTTP methods, or verbs, as they're sometimes called. This setting doesn't actually block anything—it only controls which of these methods will be available in the method drop-down list selection on the URL Set tab, which we will discuss soon. By default, only GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, and HEAD are available on a newly created trunk. Some other HTTP methods, like OPTIONS, RPC_IN_DATA, PROPFIND, and others, are added on a "need-to-know basis" when you add specific applications to your portal trunk, like, for example, Exchange and SharePoint. You can simply type additional methods and click on Add to add them to the list.

The middle section of this tab allows you to define a maximum size limit...