Even though we are focused on UAG these days, we and our partners still promote IAG and add more content for our community. Here is a blog cross-post from the CRM team blog on enabling ADFS for CRM using IAG. Most of the content of this paper is also true for UAG and for other…
Year: 2009
What’s in UAG for the end-users
In this blog we usually talk about the technologies, how to get better/easier/simpler connectivity, how to simplify deployments and manage them easily. Still, we hardly ever talk about what matters most, the people we really care about – our end users, remote workers who are using UAG to get access to their corporate resources, from…
Forefront UAG Beta 2 Docs
Along with the Forefront UAG Beta 2 download, the UAG user experience (UE) team has launched a brand new UAG content library over at TechNet (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd861463.aspx). This content is designed to help you plan, deploy, and maintain your UAG servers, and is organized as follows: Evaluation – In the Evaluation section you can read an overview of UAG…
Ready, Set, Download! Forefront UAG Beta is here!
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been talking quite a lot about the Forefront UAG beta. Finally, you can experience it for yourself! We have been working feverishly to bring you all the new features and technologies, wrapped up in one box. Click the big download button below to get the bits: We can’t…
Adding the SSTP Magic to the UAG Charm
One of the interesting features in this Forefront UAG release is our integration with SSTP (Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol) – a firewall-friendly VPN technology introduced into Windows in Vista SP2. SSTP is another RRAS (Routing and Remote Access) tunneling protocol, which relies on standard SSL technology for implementing a ‘layer 3 VPN’. Supporting layer 3…
UAG Array and Network Load Balancing
One of the major new features in this UAG release is ‘array’. An UAG array is a set of machines that share the same configuration (trunks, applications, etc.) and is managed as a unit. It maps to our ‘Enterprise Readiness’ pillar, and provides the following benefits: Increased Availability Increased Scale Management as a unit Increased…
Introducing UAG DirectAccess solution
As the PM lead responsible for the UAG DirectAccess, I’m proud to present our solution based on the new and exciting technology introduced by Windows 7 Direct Access. If you want to learn more about this technology click here. Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) utilizes DirectAccess technology built into Windows 7 and Windows Server…
Remote Access Technologies of the World – Unite!
When the design of UAG began a few years ago we noticed that our customers had multiple boxes on their network edge providing remote access. They had IP VPNs, SSL VPNs, E-Mail relays, mobile gateways, terminal services gateways – but there was no remote access solution. This is exactly what we set out to solve…
Introducing Forefront Unified Access Gateway
Hi! In the last blog post Oleg wrote about the UAG Beta becoming available in a couple of weeks. I’ve been working with the team for the past nine years and I’m now excited to give you an overview of what we actually did in the new Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG). If we were…
Forefront UAG Beta is Coming to Town
More than a year ago, we have announced the successor of IAG – Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG). For this entire period, our team was heads down in making this happen (and to have an excuse for not blogging extensively about IAG 🙂 ). It’s been a long journey and we are very proud to…