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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

How the AppWrap and SRA engines work


It's a good exercise to explore these files and to understand what they do; not only as a way of learning and getting better acquainted with the formatting, but also as a way of being able to explain behavior that you didn't understand, or were not aware of. For example, at the beginning of the chapter, we mentioned OWA and how UAG removes the default Sign out button from it so that the user will use UAG's Log Off button. This is achieved with the following function:

This may not make much sense in its current form, because the text is encoded using Base64, but in principal you should able to see how this function is used to search for some text, and replace it with another. The thing to watch out for here is that XML files are text-based and some of the special characters used to make up the structure of these files, are also commonly found in HTML and Java. This means that whatever you define inside your tags as values, will be treated literally...