Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

Plenty of useful and fun info on UAG, Microsoft's remote access and reverse-proxy product.
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I am an Information Security Professional, having worked in this field for many years. In the past, I've been an Engineer, a Journalist and an Analyst for several well-known companies. Currently, I'm a program manager with Microsoft's IIS development team. I live with my family in Issaquah, WA, and enjoy performing stand-up comedy and reading, Sci-Fi and photography

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  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    UAG Tracing made simple

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    ***Updated on Sep 20th 2012…see below*** Unlike many software products, where most errors are presented by the application’s user interface, many of the issues you might encounter have little or no visual indication of what’s going on. In those cases...
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    Troubleshooting IAG Client installation issues

    Posted over 4 years ago
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    The IAG client components are an important part of the endpoint security that the product provides, as these detect and report back to the server what is running on that computer, and more importantly - what's not running. The client tools also are also...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    SharePoint publishing concepts and considerations

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    SharePoint is probably the most common service that is published by UAG servers out there, and it can be really simple, but sometimes extremely difficult. The situation can be challenging because the external access to the site can be non-trivial, and...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    UAG vs TMG

    Posted over 1 year ago
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    I typically dedicate my posts here to more technical and in-depth stuff, but I figure it’s time I address this issue as well, as I’ve seen in come up in many discussions. With all the acronyms in the security world, it may be hard to know which product...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    Lync publishing on UAG

    Posted over 1 year ago
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    Following SP1 Update 1, UAG now supports publishing of Lync. This, however, has some important considerations that need to be followed, with regards to the trunk configuration and the certificates. Even though the Lync application can be added to ANY...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    Troubleshooting RuleSet issues

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    One of the primary security mechanisms built into IAG and UAG is the RuleSet engine. This mechanism inspects every URL request submitted to IAG or UAG, and tries to match it to one of the preconfigured rules. These rules define URLs and patterns that...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    The configuration cannot be loaded from TMG storage

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    One of the common errors seen by many UAG users, usually following a new installation, is the error message “The configuration cannot be loaded from Forefront TMG storage. An unrecoverable error has occurred. The application will close”. This is particularly...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    UAG custom Form Login

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    Single Sign On is one of the most useful features UAG offers, and Form Login is a very unique and clever mechanism. For many applications, this SSO is simple and automatic, but FormLogin can be a little more challenging. This guide will discuss configuring...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    AppWrap and SRA

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    The Application Wrapper (AppWrap) and SRA are two mechanisms UAG uses to dynamically rewrite the content of textual web data it processes. When UAG delivers a page to the client, one of the core UAG components known as “the filter” parses the content...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    Custom Form Login SSO how-to

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    One of the most important abilities of IAG is the single sign on, which lets connecting users access to internal applications without having to re-type their username and password. IAG contains multiple SSO mechanisms, but on some occasions, one might...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    UAG SP1 Update 1 is available!

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    A few days ago, on October 13th, Update 1 for UAG SP1 has been released. This update contains many fixes, as well as enhancements, such as: 1. Support for Lync publishing (hot topic!) 2. Support for Office Web Apps (with SharePoint 2010) 3. Additional...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    UAG and certificates.

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    A topic that has come up many times is the use of certificates with UAG. As it happens, using certificates has several aspects, as pertaining to UAG, so here’s a summary of the various uses we have for certificates. 1) Client Certificate Authentication...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    What’s the deal with “Public host name”?

    Posted over 1 year ago
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    As you may have noticed, some of the application templates in UAG have a setting for a “public host name”…like this: This is known as an “application specific hostname”, or A.S.H for short. You can find this option in the Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    UAG SP1 Update 1 Rollup 1 is out!

    Posted over 1 year ago
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    Yesterday we released a new rollup update to UAG – Rollup 1 for SP1 Update 1. This rollup contains 13 fixes to various issues. The full list of fixes is here (with a link to request the download). Please note that this update requires that your UAG server...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    Publish Exchange 2003 with UAG

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    The following is a guest-post by Alexandre Giraud, a highly valued MVP I’ve worked with a lot. Thanks a lot, Alexandre, for sharing your work with me and allowing me to share it with our customers! I recently had a customer with Exchange 2003 Front-End...
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    Types of updates available for UAG

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    ***As of April 2013, this page is no longer being kept current, as I have left the UAG support team. Please visit UAG's Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Forefront_Unified_Access_Gateway for updated information*** A few days ago...
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    Your computer does meet the security policy?

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    Well, this is not a police state, but if you don’t meet the policy, you’re in a bit of a pickle. Several users have reported issues when publishing Remote Desktop applications with UAG. This can happen when using one of the new Remote Desktop application...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    UAG and your own code!

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    One of the greatest aspects of UAG's customizability is the ability to add your own code into the mix (and not just the look and feel of it!). I've already discussed some ways to do this, like a custom endpoint detection script , and adding JavaScript...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    Default session vs privileged session vs privileged endpoint

    Posted over 3 years ago
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    Two terms that often confuse UAG and IAG customers are Privileged Session and Privileged Endpoint . What those actually mean, and how do they differ? And what’s the difference between a default session and a privileged one? Well, here I am, with answers...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    UAG and TMG update order

    Posted 10 months ago
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    I’ve referred to types of updates available in another blog post , in which I also list and update all available UAG updates. I also wrote about the update order in another post . However, it appears the topic is still a source of confusion, so I’ll dedicate...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    My UAG, my terms!

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    For legal reasons, most website operators are required to include a terms of use text on the front page of their website. Similarly, many UAG administrators need to add such text to the UAG’s login page. Thankfully, UAG supports customizing the login...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    UAG and Office integration

    Posted 6 months ago
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    ***Updated on 23 Jan 2013 with information about Forms-based authentication*** When publishing SharePoint servers, one key feature is office integration – the ability of Office applications to open documents from the UAG site. This might sound like something...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    Issues with Citrix (version 5.4 or later)

    Posted over 2 years ago
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    While UAG comes pre-configured with an application template for Citrix, we often discover that Citrix makes certain changes to their product with incremental updates, and that can cause various issues with UAG when trying to publish later versions than...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    UAG SP3 is now available!

    Posted 2 months ago
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    This morning, Feb 20th 2013, Service Pack 3 for UAG has been released, and is available to download here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36788 This service pack will update UAG to build 4.0.3123.10000. It’s release notes are at...
  • Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog

    UAG support for Windows 8…and other new tech

    Posted 5 months ago
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    If you’re a big fan of Windows 8 like me, you must be wondering when UAG will support it. If so, the good news is that the UAG product team has formally announced upcoming support for it. In a few short months (1st quarter of 2013), SP3 for UAG will be...
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