Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Architecting Forefront UAG

Forefront UAG is similar to Forefront TMG; in fact, it uses a Forefront TMG engine for the creation of all of its rules. You can even access the Forefront TMG console directly from a Forefront UAG server. Subsequently, the same design criteria that applied to Forefront TMG and that are listed earlier apply to Forefront UAG.

The main difference between Forefront TMG and Forefront UAG is that Forefront UAG allows for the creation of a “trunk,” which is essentially a web page that the users hit first that forces them to authenticate and, once authenticated, allows them to have access to various applications through different links on that page. One user will see different applications on that page than another user, depending ...