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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

Creating policies using the policy editor


The endpoint policy editor may seem confusing at first, because the double-level editing may make it seem as if your server has billions of policies. In reality, the policy editing process is not that hard:

  1. You create OS-level policies for the 4 OS groups (PC, Mac, Linux and Other)

  2. You assign these to a top-level policy

  3. You assign the top-level policy to an application and/or to a trunk

You can edit an existing policy, but the built-in policies are all built as a script (so you can only edit them in script-mode), which may be tricky for some administrators. It is very sensitive to syntax errors, so it's probably best to start with the GUI-based editor, and create a new policy. To do so, follow these steps:

  1. Enter the endpoint policy editor by clicking Edit Endpoint Policies. This button is available in multiple places:

    • The Select Endpoint Policies page of the application publishing wizard

    • Through clicking on Configure next to Configure Trunk Settings on...