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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

Keeping an eye on the server


Once you have DA configured and working, you will probably want to keep an eye on the server, and see who is using DA. Remember the Web Monitor we talked about in Chapter 9? Well, it has a special section for DirectAccess monitoring. It allows you to monitor the status of the server itself, so you can see if an array member is having a problem, and allows you to track active sessions.

The Current Status page shows you the list of servers in the array, and the status of the various components including DNS64, IP-HTTPS, Network Security, 6to4 Router, ISATAP Router, Teredo Server, and Teredo Relay

The Active Sessions page shows you a list of active sessions, and information about each, like the source IP, the computer account, the transition mode (connectivity type), the array member in use, and more. In a full scale deployment, the list may be long, so a filter is included to allow you to seek out a specific session by user name, computer name, IP, or certificate...