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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

Extending File Access with DFS shares


The File Access application built into UAG has fantastic capabilities, but also some limitations. One of these is lack of support for DFS shares. By this we mean that you will not even see DFS shares as they just do not appear. Technically, the application can connect to DFS shares, but the admin tool is unable to enumerate them, so you cannot add them. There is, however, a custom way of forcing File Access to use them. This entails editing the XML file which contains the list of servers and shares you selected with the admin tool.

All changes made in the File Access UI are written to this file in real time, so don't be alarmed if you see the contents change when the file is opened in an editor.

The process of editing the file is as follows:

  1. 1. Navigate to your UAG install directory, under \von\fileaccess.

  2. 2. Open the UAG management console.

  3. 3. Backup the ShareAccesscfg.xml file and then using a text editing tool, open the original.

  4. 4. Within the<Servers...