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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
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Preface

Chapter 9. Customizing Endpoint Components

The endpoint components deployed by UAG to its clients (despite being almost invisible to the end user), pack quite a punch. They control the SSL Tunnel that the client uses for application tunneling; they wipe sensitive data off the client computer at the end of a session and can even reconfigure a computer's routing table to create the VPN connection of the network connector. Customizing these components is rare, but can help you provide a fantastic user experience.

In this chapter, we will explore the following topics:

  • Adjusting the list of components pushed to clients by default

  • Adding links to the portal for the client installation

  • Customizing SSTP

Controlling component deployment

As you already know, as soon as a user types in the URL of a UAG application or portal, the first step is for UAG to detect if the user has the client components, and if not, install them. By default, UAG is configured to install only the basic set of components, which...