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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

Sharepoint and IE security enhancements


Windows Vista and IE 7 introduced two new security enhancements, Integrity Levels (IL) and Protected Mode. These security enhancements affect the way we access certain SharePoint features when published through UAG. Let's take a couple of minutes to understand the what and the how of it. In Vista and Windows 7, by default, Internet Explorer runs in Protected Mode and thus has a Low IL (Integrity Level), whereas Office has a Medium IL. For more details about the IE protected mode and these Integrity Levels refer to the article on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250462.aspx.

When publishing SharePoint, UAG sets a persistent cookie for Office Integration and Explorer View to work. The cookie is set by an ASP page (SharePointRedirector.asp). When IE runs in Protected Mode, the cookie is written in the LOW storage and therefore Office, which runs at MEDIUM IL, cannot read this cookie. There are two possible solutions to this problem:

  • Make sure...