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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

Global URL Settings and URL Set tabs


The Global URL Settings tab hosts additional configuration settings that pertain to the URL Set, and so it is time to introduce it. We will talk about the URL Set tab first, and then go back to the Global URL Settings.

The URL Set, also known as URL List, Rule Set or Security Rules is one of the most important security mechanisms within UAG. This is basically an engine that checks each web request that UAG receives from clients against a list of rules, and determines if it is to be allowed or denied. This engine is extremely powerful, as it allows the administrator to configure what is OK and what is not with a high level of granularity. We have already glimpsed at these rules earlier, in Chapter 3, and soon we will learn how to configure it.

The URL Set is a list of rules that define URL patterns (using our favourite mechanism: Regular Expressions), and how UAG should handle them. When you publish applications on the portal, some application templates...