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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

The UI pages


Anyone familiar with UAG will know of its folder structure and the many files that make up the code and the logic that is applied throughout. For those less acquainted, however, we'll start with the two most important folders you need to know — InternalSite and PortalHomePage. InternalSite contains pages that are displayed to the user as part of the login and logout process, as well as various error pages. PortalHomePage contains the files that are a part of the portal itself, shown to the user after logging in.

The portal layout comes in three different flavors, depending on the client that is accessing it. The most common one is the Regular portal, which happens to be the more polished version of the three, shown to all computers. The second is the Premium portal, which is a scaled-down version designed for phones that have advanced graphic capabilities, such as Windows Mobile phones. The third is the Limited portal, which is a text-based version of the portal, shown...