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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

Wizard Rime


With all the above configured, and all the information collected, you are now ready to start the DA wizard on UAG, and go through the steps. Keep in mind that until you generate the DA scripts in the final stage, anything can be changed, so don't be afraid to go back and forth within the steps. To start, open the UAG management console, and click on DirectAccess on the left. This will present you with the DA configuration screen, which is split into four parts:

Your screen will actually show everything grayed out, until you click Enable DirectAccess. If you are not using an Array of servers, and have forgotten to configure your external NIC with two consecutive IP addresses, you will receive an error about this right away. If so, go ahead and fix that.

Client and GPO configuration

Start the DA configuration process by clicking on Edit under Clients and GPOs. The first steps asked you to decide whether to use full intranet access (Allow DirectAccess clients to connect to internal...