Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one describes an issue where DirectAccess Manage Out fails for any non-ICMP traffic in UAG 2010. ===== Symptoms DirectAccess Manage Out does not work for any non-ICMP traffic in Microsoft Forefront...

  Symptoms: You’ve published an internal Web resource. Your users can successfully authenticate and access the site. However, they may discover that selecting any link from a particular page in the site inadvertently sends them back to the initial...

Symtoms: When starting Web Monitor and selecting any option under the Event Viewer category, the Web Monitor displays the following message: "There are no events to display" Additionally, if you have a UAG Array and you select "Current...

Introduction : We had an application published on Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG). Single Sign On (SSO) for that particular application on UAG was not working. We were using 401 to delegate credentials on the Applications Publishing...

In case you happened to have missed the announcement last week, Microsoft has released security bulletin MS12-026 - Vulnerabilities in Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Could Allow Information Disclosure (2663860). To view the complete security bulletin...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where upgrading to Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 SP1 fails with error 1603 and rolls back: ===== Symptoms When upgrading to Microsoft Forefront Unified...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where the session timeout doesn’t work as expected when publishing OWA with UAG 2010: ===== Symptoms Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG 2010) allows...

  We have recently had a number of customers inquire about the default polling interval for the DCA client. The polling interval of the DCA client is 30 seconds. More Info One of the primary functions of the DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant is...

  Symptom: When checking the Current Status of DirectAccess using the Web Monitor, you may find that the report shows “Network Security” as Not Healthy. More Information: When activating the UAG DirectAccess configuration, the internal interface...

Hi everyone, this is Dror from the Forefront UAG product group. One of our customers ran into an issue with their SharePoint deployment and we thought it is worth sharing with you all the ways that UAG can be leveraged. Let’s assume a topology...

A common situation with UAG is that when a DA client connects, he sees a red X or a yellow exclamation mark even when the connection is actually working fine. This type of thing can happen if you have configured the DA connectivity verifiers to use the...

An issue that has been experienced by many UAG customers is a situation where the UAG portal becomes unresponsive while users try to access it externally. This can also manifest itself as a slow login. When the user clicks on the ‘Log-on’ button on the...

I recently worked on a case where the issue was that users could not access Enterprise vault archived emails in OWA Published through UAG. Enterprise Vault is an email archiving software from Symantec and is used as an add on with OWA to access archived...

I’m happy to announce that Microsoft Forefront UAG  2010 SP1 has passed Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ (EAL 2+). The certification work has been performed by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the Common Criteria certification...

As you probably know, one of UAG’s most important features is the endpoint detection mechanism. This engine runs a special detection script on connecting clients, which reports back to UAG certain properties of the endpoint. Then, the administrator can...

RegEx (Regular Expressions) is commonly used when configuring UAG portal applications. In addition, RegEx is also used when configuring application customizations such as AppWrap and SRA. I recently worked with a customer that posed a fairly unique question...

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...

When you try to activate UAG, you might find yourself staring at an error saying “firewall settings could not be configured, unknown error 0xc00403c4” This is not a very common situation, but it may happen if you have made changes or additions to the...

Several customers have asked for help in creating their own custom application icons. This is a rather simple process that only requires a simple paint program and some understanding of the CustomUpdate process and appicon structure. UAG requires 4 icons...

IBM’s Host On Demand (HOD) application is a fantastic solution, providing access to IBM mainframe servers through a browser. It’s basically a Terminal emulation client written in java, allowing it to be embedded into the browser, and allowing it to be...

We are glad to inform you that the Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Administrator's Handbook, published by PACKT publishing is now available in print. The book was written by Ran Dolev and Erez Ben-Ari (also known as “Ben Ben”) from the UAG product support...

An error you might run into when activating a DirectAccess configuration is the dreadful “Forwarding on the 6to4 network interface cannot be enabled”: This often happens after you rebuild a server, and try to restore a configuration from backup, and is...

A nice feature of SharePoint is SharePoint Mobile Access , which allows you to access SharePoint sites on a mobile phone, without having to cope with the busy SharePoint web interface on the phone’s small screen. This is a built-in feature of UAG, as...

The UAG portal is designed to let you publish multiple applications using a single public hostname, but many customers need UAG to publish only a single application, or simply don’t want to have the portal visible to their users, and have the users redirected...

Publishing Office Communication Server (OCS) and Communicator Web Access (CWA) with UAG has been a source of confusion for some UAG customers, mostly because these products offer a wide range of functionality. Some of this is pretty simple to configure...