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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

Remote management and monitoring of UAG


Most administrators use remote desktop to take control of their UAG server rather than working on the server locally. However, unless you installed your server using remote desktop, you may find that you are unable to connect to it. This is not a bug, but an out-of-the-box security mechanism that's intentionally there to protect UAG from unauthorized access. Remote access to UAG is then only permitted from sources that have been explicitly listed in TMG. So as an administrator, you would need to add your required sources to the predefined remote management object. To do so, the following steps are to be carried out:

  1. 1. Open the TMG console.

  2. 2. Click on Firewall Policy.

  3. 3. On the right-hand side of the screen, go to Toolbox.

  4. 4. Expand Network Objects.

  5. 5. Expand Computer Sets.

  6. 6. Double-click on Remote Management Computers.

It's probably worth mentioning that modifying the TMG configuration directly is normally not supported, but the preceding procedure is...