I recently had a customer ask about setting the timeout in Unified Access Gateway (UAG) on a per-user basis. By default, UAG allows you to determine this at the portal on an application basis, but not on a per-user basis. Knowing that UAG is VERY customizable, this blog outlines how to accomplish this. Inactivity vs….
Year: 2010
Free Willy!
As you all know, as we announced here on the UAG Team Blog site a few weeks ago, UAG’s “grand-father” product named e-Gap has reached its “end of support” date on July 13th. Obviously, as a result of this, many of our long time customers are in the process of upgrading or have already upgraded…
Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator’s Handbook
Since UAG came out earlier this year, our customers and partners are increasingly interested in a deeper dive into UAG, for a better understanding of how to get the most of the product. We are happy to inform you that in the near future PACKT publishing from the UK will be releasing a book about…
UAG is certified for Windows Server 2008 R2
Forefront UAG has passed Certified for Windows Server 2008 R2 tests during April 2010, based on the UAG Update 1 release. I’m pleased to announce that we have completed certification registration, and UAG is now listed in the Windows Server Catalog as a certified product. This certification is an indication that the product has met…
Support Ending for e-Gap 3.6
This is just a reminder that support for e-Gap 3.6 is going to end next week (July 13th, 2010). Please also note that there are no extended support or custom support agreements offered for eGap 3.6. For more information please refer to: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=13396 Ophir Polotsky Supportability Program Manager
Forefront UAG DirectAccess performance information
You’ve all been asking for it, and now we have produced it… some UAG DirectAccess performance information. The article contains more detailed information about the number of users supported on the hardware and additional caveats. If you don’t want to read the whole article, we’ve got the main numbers below, and some important points to…
Enabling Hyper-V Management through DirectAccess
Lots of folks have bemoaned the fact that Hyper-V manglement through DirectAccess (DA) is (at best) inconsistent. To understand why this is so, we have to understand a bit about how Hyper-V and DA work from a network perspective. In order to support the bi-directional connectivity required by Hyper-V WMI usage, Installation of the Hyper-V…
Enabling Lotus Notes to communicate via Direct Access and UAG
Summary I had a call recently from a customer on IBM’s Notes who wants to use Direct Access. The issue was that it did not work through Direct Access by default, but as you read on, we did get it working! Why it did not work by default? If you think about the Direct Access…
Best Practices Analyzer Tool for Forefront Unified Access Gateway is here!
We are happy to announce the availability of the first version of the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) Tool for the Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG). You are welcome to download it to try it out. The purpose of UAG BPA is to help UAG administrators to verify proper configuration, and to troubleshoot UAG-related issues. Figure…
DirectAccess and Teredo Adapter Behavior
In a recent blog post about an interesting problem we had with understanding Outlook performance issues and the IP-HTTPS adapter, we had the opportunity to review how the various IPv6 transition technology adapters worked in terms of when they were enabled and when they were disabled. If you haven’t seen that post, head on over…