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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

Installation


You are now ready to launch the installation. To do so, insert the installation disc, which should launch the welcome page (splash.hta). This is a good chance to review the information offered, such as the system requirements, the deployment checklist, and the release notes. Well, who are we kidding, nobody really does that, so when ready, click on Install Forefront UAG.

Once the installation starts, the software license terms (a.k.a. EULA) will be shown, and you will be asked to accept it. The next step is the installation location selection, which by default will install the product under the folder Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway in the system's Program Files folder.

After that stage, the rest of the installation requires no intervention. It will install Roles and Features, then AJAX, which takes around 1-2 minutes altogether. Then, TMG will be installed, which takes about 15-20 minutes. Lastly, UAG itself will be installed, and that will keep you on the edge...