Who this book is for

Since its release, UAG has evolved to be one of the most popular remote access solutions in the market. When compared to its predecessors, it has also become more of a mainstream product which is now widely used across all industries. The appeal to most is, without a doubt, its reputation for doing exactly as it says on the box, but then also having this almost boundless ability to satisfy almost every possible requirement.

In a sense, you could even class UAG as more of a platform for bringing remote users and their applications together in a single place. However, it goes without saying that how you deliver, secure, and then present your solution, is only as good as the person who implements it.

For this reason, most companies choose to either engage a security practice which offers UAG skills or in quite a lot of cases prefer to put their own consultant through training, along with a purchase of our very own Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook as a means of getting up to speed.

Having the right skills is important as many of UAG's advanced features require careful planning and experience with UAG itself. It can also require experience with the underlying technologies and products, such as Windows Server, Active Directory, the HTTP and HTTPS Protocols, Public Key Infrastructure, the Kerberos authentication protocol, the claims-based access control authorization model (used in AD FS), and many others. For these reasons, this book will be most useful to such consultants who are interested in advancing their deployment skills to include custom UAG scenarios. This book can also be very useful for network and security engineers who deploy and use the product, and are interested in deploying advanced scenarios without help from a consultant, or who need to expand on the work of a consultant, or to support it following the deployment handover. Another target group are prospective developers who are interested in developing custom solutions or add-ons to UAG, to be used within their organizations, or to be offered to the public.