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Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization

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Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization

Overview of this book

While UAG is built to integrate with many environments and publish dozens of application types, many organizations require a certain level of customization to meet their needs. With this book in hand, you will be equipped to deal with these types of customization scenarios, and you will be confident in using such workarounds without hassle and trial and error. Written by some of the leading experts on UAG, "Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization" covers the most complex and challenging options for customizing UAG in a way that is friendly and easy to follow. It walks you through various customization tasks, including explanations and code samples, as well as creative ideas for troubleshooting your work. Until now, only a few of the extensions to UAG's services have been publicly available, and most were only known to a select few. Now, this can include you! Throughout this book, you will tackle how to change the system's look-and-feel, deal with advanced authentication schemes and write special functions that need to be executed as part of the client interaction. With "Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization", you too can learn how to customize various aspects of UAG's functionality to enhance your organization or customers' experience.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Customizing the portal


As we said earlier, the pages that make up a portal and its various flavors are under the PortalHomePage folder. These are all ASP.NET files (.ASPX), and the scope for making any alterations here is very limited. However, the appearance is mostly controlled via the file /InternalSite/PortalHomePage/Standard.Master, which contains many visual parameters that you can change. For example, the DIV with ID content has a section pertaining to the side bar application list. You might customize the midTopSideBarCell width setting to make the bar wider or thinner. You can even hide it completely by adding style="display: none;" to the contentLeftSideBarCell table cell. As always, make sure you copy the master file to CustomUpdate, and not touch the original file, and as with the CSS files, any changes you make take effect immediately.

Additional things that you can do with the portal are removing or adding buttons to the portal toolbar. For example, you might add a button to...