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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

Controlling component deployment


As you already know, as soon as a user types in the URL of a UAG application or portal, the first step is for UAG to detect if the user has the client components, and if not, install them. By default, UAG is configured to install only the basic set of components, which include the Client Component Manager, the Endpoint Session Cleanup component (also known as the Attachment Wiper), and the endpoint detection component. This means that if the portal hosts the SSL-VPN tunneling application (also known as the network connector), or some other application that requires SSL-VPN tunneling, launching these applications will require the installation of these additional components. This experience is somewhat unsavory, as the additional installation requires a browser restart. The solution is to customize the list of components installed by the portal automatically.

The list of components is controlled by the file \von\InternalSite\InstallXml.asp, which would...