Book Image

Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization

Book Image

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

Portal selection for clients


As we noted earlier, UAG comes with three types of portals. UAG has logic to detect client and browser types based on the user agent string that each browser sends. According to this, UAG decides which portal to send to the user, but it may get it wrong. For example, UAG may not recognize a certain phone or tablet's agent, and direct it to the wrong portal (a mobile portal on a 10-inch tablet would look weird, and a PC portal on a phone would be quite impossible to use). If you run into this sort of situation, you can customize UAG to recognize your devices differently.

Note

Before continuing, please bear in mind that changes in this area do not extend UAG's supportability boundaries, which limits the types of client platforms that are officially supported by Microsoft. Technically speaking, you can access the UAG portal with almost any browser in the world, even HyperLink (http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/), but the results may be unpredictable, and many...