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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

Remote Desktop applications


The last group of applications UAG offers are Remote Desktop applications. There are two types of remote desktop applications—one of them is the applications that are based on SSL-VPN tunneling and the second uses the Remote Desktop Gateway service on UAG. We like to refer to the SSL-VPN based templates as "legacy", because they have been a part of UAG's predecessors, IAG and e-Gap, and they haven't changed since. To the RDG-based templates we refer to as Remote Desktop Services (RDS) publishing. The RDS publishing templates rely on a service that is included with Windows 2008 R2, which provide new functionality for publishing RemoteApps.

The purpose of these templates, of course, is to let you launch a remote desktop session to an internal server, and that's no small feat, as the remote desktop protocol is not a web-based protocol. With UAG's predecessors, this could be done by tunneling the traffic, and that's what the legacy templates are about—they establish...