UAG – Renamed group not synchronized

Today, I discovered that when you rename an AD group used for application authorization in UAG, the new name is not applied to UAG and you are not able to access to the published application anymore. Step to reproduce Create a user group on your AD; for this example, I named it UAG Demo – […]

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UAG – Exchange 2010 SP1 publication

After publishing Exchange Server 2010 SP1 (particularly Outlook Anywhere), you may have the following event logged on the Application event log in your UAG server: Log Name:      Application Source:        Microsoft Forefront UAG Date:          21/11/2010 20:24:14 Event ID:      24 Task Category: None Level:         Warning Keywords:      Classic User:          N/A Computer:     <UAG Server> Description: The request from user

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Windows Phone – See your Windows phone as storage device

With previous Windows Mobile devices (running Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5-6-6.1) you were able to see the content of your device through ‘My computer’ as a storage device. With Windows Phone 7 (and the Zune client), this is not possible anymore. But… Open the registry and locate the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB Look for the value

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Lync – Documentation and download

As Microsoft has released Lync in RTM, documentation and evaluation are now available (PS: thanks to Damien Caro) UPDATE By the way, Lync is already available for MSDN and Technet subcribers. Server evaluation: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=145A4AAA-1F0D-403A-AD10-A1166EC44C75 Client evaluation (32 bits): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ac81c462-9a4e-4d0b-be7a-36ebebf43a1f Client evaluation (64 bits): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e9f07fed-2d33-476d-8e8f-68442b94f942 Lync Attendee (user mode installation guide): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=68a3ca04-a058-4e47-98ea-9e9af7ebd6e3 Lync Attendee (administrator installation

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UAG – Provide contact information on application portal

After providing contact information on UAG logon page (see previous post), you may also want to provide contact information on application portal. Once again, default settings doesn’t provide contact details and you have to update some files.     To update the Contact us link provided at the bottom left of the page, update the mailto

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UAG – Provide administrator contact on logon page

ForeFront Unified Access Gateway is the Microsoft solution to provide remote and secure access to application (web or legacy) through a portal. However, the default settings doesn’t provide contact information (administrator’s contact) on logon page or portal page. To provide this information on logon page, you have to update the language definition files. By default,

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UAG – Provide remote desktop access without Remote Desktop Gateway

As you may already know, Windows Server 2008 is providing new remote desktop functionality, called Remote Access Gateway, which allow RDP access to internal network without VPN. However, this doesn’t provide detailed security management, especially if you publish RPD gateway through ISA or TMG. To simplify this, you should publish Remote Desktop Access through UAG.

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