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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
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Preface

Chapter 5. Creating Custom Application Templates

While UAG comes prepopulated with a wide selection of application templates, you might find yourself yearning for something that is a little different. Perhaps you don't like the prompt that says Ready to launch application, which shows up when you launch an SSL-VPN application, or perhaps you would like your application to perform certain functions when launched. This and much more is possible by customizing the default application templates, and even adding your own. In this chapter, we will learn the following:

  • Building SSL-VPN templates

  • Creating your own templates

  • Template customizations and enhancements

  • More parameters used in the template

  • SSL-VPN-specific settings and configuration

  • Tying in to the SSL-VPN template list

Building SSL-VPN templates

The SSL-VPN application templates are stored in two master files on the UAG server. The first file is<UAG Path>\von\conf\wizarddefaults\WizardDefaultParam.Ini, and the second is<UAG Path&gt...