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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating your own templates


Like any customization process with UAG, creating your own templates requires creating your own file and placing it in the CustomUpdate folder of the relevant folder. The following are the steps that you need to take:

  1. 1. If the UAG configuration console is open, close it.

  2. 2. Create your own SSL-VPN template, based on the same structure of the SSLVPNTemplates.xml file. The file needs to start with<config><templates version="3" use-lsp="1">, and end with</templates></config>, and in between, you can have one or more templates that start and end with the template tags (<template name="… and</template>). Consider the following screenshot, for example:

  3. 3. Place your file in the folder<UAG Path>\von\conf\CustomUpdate and make sure you name it SSLVPNTemplates.xml.

  4. 4. Create a custom WizardDefaultParams file, based on the structure of WizardDefaultParams.ini. The file needs to start with the application list tag, which lists the number...