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Instant Microsoft Forefront UAG Mobile Configuration Starter

By : Fabrizio Volpe
Book Image

Instant Microsoft Forefront UAG Mobile Configuration Starter

By: Fabrizio Volpe

Overview of this book

UAG provides your employees, clients, or partners secure remote access to your vital corporate resources, while delivering a seamless integration with your existing network environment. UAG is able to optimize content for different mobile devices, and is also able to publish complex applications in a simple manner. You are also able to integrate UAG with multiple domains and federated authentications, to give the highest quality service in a mobility scenario. "Instant Microsoft Forefront UAG Mobile Configuration Starter" is a concise and informative book that allows you to set up and start using UAG without any existing knowledge of the area.This book will start by expertly guiding you through the installation and setup of UAG, and then show you how to publish a simple application for mobile devices, in order to familiarize you with concepts and operations that you will use throughout with UAG.The main body of the book focuses on a series of essential, and incredibly practical, recipes and examples designed to help you in utilizing UAG features for their maximum effect. By the end of "Instant Microsoft Forefront UAG Mobile Configuration Starter", you will know all the vital information you need to deploy UAG in a successful and efficient manner, in order to tailor the configuration to your company’s specific requirements.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Chapter 1. Instant Microsoft Forefront UAG Mobile Configuration Starter

Welcome to Instant Microsoft Forefront UAG Mobile Configuration Starter.

In a world where the number of smartphones is expected to reach a billion by 2016, companies are in need of working solutions to extend their enterprise resources to mobile users in a secure and effective way.

UAG is Microsoft's answer to this and offers the following:

  • A high level of integration with existing Microsoft environments and solutions

  • Out of the box features for mobile devices that are really not to be overlooked

The purpose of the book is to introduce UAG as a solution, dedicated to mobile users, to explain the benefits of the UAG solution and to show the various steps we need to follow in order to deploy a working solution.

This book contains the following sections:

So, what is Microsoft Forefront UAG Mobile? is an introductory chapter, with a high-level overview of UAG and a first look at the features and benefits of the publishing resources for mobile devices using UAG.

Installation teaches us how to deploy UAG and how to configure it for access from mobile devices in a quick, easy, and efficient manner.

Quick start – Publishing SharePoint for mobile devices is dedicated to explaining one basic operation of UAG for mobile devices: the deployment of Microsoft SharePoint Workspace Mobile 2010. The steps we will see here will be used over and over again for publishing applications.

Top features we need to know about explains the three basic tasks of UAG for mobile (mobile portal management, configuration of mobile logons and portals, and publishing for mobile devices). By the end of this section we will be able to configure and modify the access to mobile portals, to manage and configure the logon and credentials required (username and password or PIN), and to publish Exchange ActiveSync (with filtering) and Dynamics CRM applications.

People and places you should get to know will have a collection of documentation references, links, Twitter accounts, forums, and resources to help us use UAG at the maximum level.