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Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook

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Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook

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

Chapter 6. Authenticating and Controlling Access

So far in this book we have discussed several methods of using UAG in order to publish backend applications to end-users on the Internet, or to give these users full network access to a corporate LAN. However there is little chance that in real life, you would allow "free passage" to anyone out there, on the world wide web, to your organization resources. You also wouldn't allow just about anyone to walk into your corporate offices without requiring them to present some credentials before they can get into the elevator, not to mention into your data centre. There is also at least one, if not several, layers of authentication, both at the virtual gate to your corporate network (which is represented by the UAG portal ), and possibly also at the entrance to different more restricted areas, like, for example, specific applications or even parts of applications published through a UAG portal trunk. In this chapter we will discuss the features built...