Tag: IAG

I’m really glad that after two weeks of long work writing, reviewing, testing and diving into this project the result pays off. The list of IAG KBs is growing at support.microsoft.com as a result of this huge team effort that we have here at Microsoft. It was an amazing work done from all team members….

The endpoint drive mapping feature on IAG is a functionality that a lots of administrators wants to use when configuring the IAG Portal due the transparency to the end user. However this functionality still not supported for Windows Vista users, even with IAG 2007 SP1. For more information on this read the IAG 2007 SP1…

When the client workstation connects to IAG Portal and the endpoint detection is done, the IAG needs to do some inbound queries to validate client components. The Whale components that are used during the incoming test on IE are called “Whale Add ons”. They are: WhlClnt3.exe, WhlClnt3.WhlCach3.exe, WhlDetect.dll and WhlMgr.dll. The ports that are used…

1. Introduction   Last article about authentication repository I explained how to create a LDAPS repository and how to troubleshoot LDAPS authentication repository. This post is pretty much a complement to that because here we will move the troubleshooting further and enables the lower level trace in order to see more details about the authentication…

Last week Michael Riva wrote and article to ISASERVER.ORG about IAG 2007 that explains in details and in a didactic manner hwo to customize the IAG Portal. The article was edited by Tom Shinder and it is now available in the link below: http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Customizing-IAG-2007-Portal-Pages.html   Really worth to read it if you are looking for…

1. Introduction   The IAG Server 2007 is known for the flexibility to allow access from anywhere to the internal resource in a secure manner. However, if you are really thinking about security there is a key pillar called “Authentication”. The good part about the IAG is that it allows all this flexibility and customization…

1. Introduction   The first part of this article explained how to configure the IAG Server to allow full network access using the Network Connector. Now it comes the time to connect the external computers to the network. This second part will focus on what needs to be done on the client side to allow…

Last Tuesday Microsoft announced the new generation of IAG, now called UAG (Unified Access Gateway). For more information check the Forefront Team Blog site: http://blogs.technet.com/forefront/archive/2008/04/29/microsoft-announces-its-next-generation-secure-remote-access-solution-the-forefront-unified-access-gateway.aspx …or the UAG page: http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/prodinfo/roadmap/uag.mspx Keep watching the evolution of this product; it is becoming ever more powerful, secure and flexible.

1. Introduction   Without a doubt one of the most powerful features that IAG 2007 has is the capability to allow full VPN access using a pure SSL connection.  This feature is not available on ISA Server and the only other product that Microsoft has to enable this technology is the SSL VPN that comes…

There are many people that still having doubts about IAG and why IAG 2007 has the ISA Server 2006 on the same box. To understand that let’s see the diagram below:   Figure 1 – Software layer that involved on the way that IAG 2007 Server handles the traffic.   This figure shows the main…