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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

Setting up the IP-HTTPS public site


The 6to4 and Teredo components don't require much work on your part, but IP-HTTPS is a bit more demanding to set up. When IP-HTTPS is in use, the traffic is encrypted with SSL, and that requires the UAG server to be configured with a certificate correctly.

When you run the DA setup wizard, it configures the UAG server as an IP-HTTPS server. Similarly to an NLS, this is just an IIS website, which does not need to host anything, but has to respond to HTTPS requests with some status code, and with a valid certificate. As opposed to the NLS, which needs to be accessible inside the corporate network, the IP-HTTPS site needs to be accessible on the Internet, and that may complicate things with regards to the certificate.

With the NLS, you could have used an internal Certificate Authority (CA) server, but for IP-HTTPS, this may be a problem. The reason is that for the client to be able to trust the certificate, it has to have a Certificate Revocation List (CRL...