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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

Client connection modes


Before we go on about setting up the server, you need to understand the various client connection options, how they affect you (a LOT!) and how you can affect them (not so much).

As we said, DA is all about IPv6, but it's going to be quite a while before the Internet itself is ready for it. Virtually all the public internet is still using IPv4, and so several technologies have been developed to allow those steam-era machines to connect. Sure, your users are running spanking new copies of Windows 7 on their computers, but their home routers are still using IPv4, and their ISPs are too.

When a Windows 7 client that is configured to use DA loads, it attempts to use a technology called 6to4 to establish the IPv6 connection that it needs. 6to4 (which sounds a lot like '64' when said out loud) is a bridging mechanism, designed to encapsulate IPv6 traffic inside IPv4 traffic, thereby allowing the computer to use IPv6 on non-IPv6 networks. Once you have DA configured and enabled...