Today I want to talk about UAG DirectAccess Group Policy objects and some useful tweaks you can apply to them. Using an Existing GPO While the script generated by the UAG DirectAccess Configuration Wizard works well in most cases, in some cases you may have to edit the script. Two reasons that may require you…
Year: 2010
IPv6 Must be Enabled on the Forefront UAG Server’s External Interface
Since many customers have not utilized IPv6 prior to the advent of DirectAccess, some of them disabled IPv6 as part of their standard server build process or image (as described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929852). While we don’t recommend this (see the ‘Argument Against Disabling IPv6’ at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.07.cableguy.aspx), we have seen a few of our DirectAccess early adopters…
Providing Granular Anonymous Access to Web Sites
A common question for UAG administrators is, can I provide anonymous access to a Web site, but require and prompt for authentication when a user clicks a link to access a specific part of the Web site? Remember: the definition of a Web Application in UAG is a combination of the Web server, the port…
Forefront UAG content series on the Microsoft Download Center
A number of our Forefront UAG TechNet guides are now available for download in Word format on the Microsoft Download Center. Available downloads include: Exchange solution guide – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=59916b01-dd04-46e1-8afe-01af9da77167 SPS solution guide – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9bcf1d69-89af-47d3-b0f1-5865936f4f00 RDS solution guide – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d192c703-e30b-4d47-9992-12b84c7554cb CRM solution guide – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=742701ff-574e-450a-bdeb-cf12a2ae4206 Infrastructure planning guide – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=110b4c77-b411-4845-9b82-40a733b17003 Array design and deployment guides -…
Announcing the availability of IAG 3.7 SP2 Update 3
Applicability This announcement applies to all IAG customers. Availability The file IAG3.7-SP2Update-3.exe (build 47) is uploaded to CSS repository. A KB article with full details will be published soon. Prerequisites This Update requires prior installation of IAG 3.7 SP2; it cannot be installed on v3.7.0 or v3.7.1. Communication I am pleased to announce the availability…
How to configure Forefront TMG to block AD users from accessing internal resources
The secure socket tunneling protocol (SSTP) allows Web users authenticated by the Forefront UAG portal to access the published remote network. You can use Forefront TMG on UAG to configure who has access to what over SSTP VPN. In this example, we’ll block a specific user/group from accessing the entire Internal network on all protocols….
What happened to Basic and Webmail trunks?
In IAG, we created Basic and Webmail trunks to publish a single Web application with a one-to-one connection, where one external IP address routes to a single backend Web application server. Basic and Webmail trunks are no longer available in UAG, so what happens now if you want to publish a single Web application directly,…
Forefront UAG in Common Criteria Evaluation
I’m pleased to announce that Forefront UAG has formally entered evaluation for Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ with TÜViT as the Common Criteria Testing Laboratory (CCTL), and has attained Evaluated Products List (EPL) status. The evaluation is being conducted by the Federal Office for Information Security (a German government agency known in English as…
Forefront UAG RTM documentation now live on TechNet
The complete library of Forefront UAG RTM content is now available on the Library tab of our Forefront UAG TechCenter. This content release is the result of a joint effort coordinated by the UAG User Experience team, in conjunction with the product group, field and support engineers, our community and customers. Together we planned, developed…
UAG 2010 is now on MSDN
for MSDN subscribers, FYI – UAG is now live on subscriber downloads. You can see it at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/downloads Available to Levels: VS Pro with MSDN Premium (Empower); Developer AA; MSDN Universal (Retail); VSTS Team Suite (VL); VSTS Architecture (VL); VSTS Development (VL); VSTS Test (VL); VS Pro with MSDN Premium (VL); MSDN Universal (VL); VSTS…