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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

Verifying usernames


The process of user and password verification is where the real power of ASP comes into play. You can compare a user's submitted credentials to literally any information store that offers a query interface, and that you know how to interact with. The Windows Operating System comes prepopulated with a huge selection of COM objects, which you can utilize to interact with your data source. The simplest example is the FileSystemObject, which allows you to read files directly from the server's hard drive.

For example, consider the following screenshot:

The preceding sample is not UAG-specific, but rather just simple ASP code to read a file off the hard drive and parse its contents to look for the username and password. In the preceding code, we read the flat text file users.txt, which is a semicolon-separated list of user+password combinations formatted as user%password. We read the content of the file into a variable, and then use the split command to convert that list into...