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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

Putting it all together


Now that we have discussed the concepts, you are ready to start designing your deployment, and collecting the required data. Here are some questions you have to think about:

  • Are you going to use multiple servers with load balancing? If so, you might consider starting with one server, and adding more only when you are sure you have a good understanding of DA, or have a solid working environment.

  • Depending on how you manage your DNS, you may need some time to configure the public DNS entry for the UAG server's public URL.

  • If your organization has security policies that govern the placement of the UAG server, or ports that can or cannot be open on the public or DMZ firewalls, these may need to be revised or pass some approval process

  • If you need to purchase a public certificate for IP-HTTPS, you should plan this in advance, especially if you need to budget the process.

  • You may need to purchase another server for the NLS role, or find a server that can host it.

  • If you plan...