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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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How to set per user inactivity and forced timeout in UAG
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...
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Exchange Offline Address Book is not being updated
We got reports from folks who published Outlook Anywhere through UAG and noticed their (apparently large) Offline Address Book (OAB) is not being updated. David Bahat from our test team came up with...
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Exchange Publishing - UAG Performance
Here are the details of a recent test cycle our performance lab conducted for publishing Exchange with Unified Access Gateway (UAG) RTM. It should be noted that all sorts of factors impact performance,...
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Authenticating to UAG with an email address instead of user ID
Summary I recently had a customer ask about how to do SSO with an email address and not the samAccountName. Knowing that Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is VERY flexible, the answer is of course...
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How to enable Remote Desktop Sharing (RDS/RDP) from corporate machines to...
Summary: I had a customer ask how the helpdesk / support staff can connect to DirectAccess (Windows7) connected machines. He asked because if they enabled “Remote Desktop Sharing” in the Firewall in...
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New Forefront UAG Book
Yuri Diogenes and Tom Shinder will soon release their book Deploying Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway*. The book focuses on deployment scenarios and best practices for implementation, and can...
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Forefront UAG 2010 – Update 2.
I’m very happy to announce that on September 21st we released Forefront UAG 2010 – Update 2. In this update we deliver enhancements to existing UAG functionality, and solutions for major deployment...
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Announcing Forefront UAG 2010 Service Pack 1
We are happy to announce Forefront UAG 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the availability of its final release candidate. This service pack includes many enhancements to the product, designed to ease...
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UAG 2010 SP1: The New and Improved DirectAccess Features
We received some great feedback from customers about deploying DirectAccess in their organizations. One notable quote was “it works like magic!” Our customers also told us how we can make the product...
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Creating a policy for a corporate machine
A nice feature of the endpoint policy mechanism in UAG is the ability to create a Corporate-Machine policy, and then use it to grant more granular access to machines which meet the policy. Some...
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UAG DirectAccess monitoring and troubleshooting in UAG 2010 SP1
After deploying your UAG DirectAccess environment, you need to ascertain that it’s up and running, and is providing the remote access as planned. There are a few things you’ll want to check: Are all...
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UAG 2010 SP1: DirectAccess Always Managed & Managed Only
Always managed One of the reasons I really like DirectAccess is that client computers can always be managed, regardless of location. This means that whenever a user turns the laptop on and connects to...
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