UAG does a great job of streamlining secure messaging, with a publishing experience that is framed into a set of easy to follow steps. Nonetheless, before you start there are a couple of considerations to bear in mind: Choosing between a dedicated mail trunk or mail applications contained in a UAG portal Selecting Exchange mail…
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Faster, Higher, Stronger – UAG Performance
Everybody’s always talking about performance, but what does it really mean? In this post I’m going to describe some of the behind-the-scenes work we’ve been doing on UAG performance. Performance improvements are a major area of focus for this release. First and foremost, in UAG we switched to 64-bit architecture, thus overcoming the address space…
Deep Dive Into DirectAccess – Part 1
Hello, My name is Ben Bernstein and I’m a Program Manager for the UAG team. As a follow up to Nitzan’s blog post DirectAccess support in UAG, I want to share with you some additional thoughts. Broadband internet connections have been commoditized to a point where anyone can use a 3G broadband connection from a…
Comparing UAG and TMG arrays
Judging from a number of newsgroup posts, there is some confusion about differences and similarities between TMG Beta 3 arrays and UAG Beta 2 arrays. So I thought a quick summary might be useful: TMG Beta 3 comes in two flavors – Standard edition and Enterprise edition. Enterprise edition provides the following types of arrays:…
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…
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…