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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

Troubleshooting certificate authentication


As noted earlier, many real-world certificate authentication deployments are far from trivial, and it's always possible that the code changes that you have applied to achieve a more customized implementation do not work as expected.

Of all the issues we've seen and heard of while working on this subject, there is one that system admins are always guaranteed to fall upon. This is probably more of a gotcha than an issue and you'll encounter this when testing through a browser that is configured not to show the certificate selection pop-up, if only a single certificate is found. In this case, you may need to disable the "Don't prompt for client certificates" selection setting in IE's zone settings. Configure this as follows:

  1. 1. Open the settings for Internet Explorer.

  2. 2. Go to the Security tab.

  3. 3. Double-click the zone you wish to edit.

  4. 4. Scroll down to Security, and set the option as shown in the following screenshot:

We'd then suggest using UAG's good...