Ben Ari's UAG and IAG Blog
Plenty of useful and fun info on UAG, Microsoft's remote access and reverse-proxy product.
Outlook any where is it?
The UAG’s Web Monitor is a fantastic tool for monitoring user activity, but if you are using UAG for...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 03/24/2011
UAG and UDID based endpoint detection
One of the most important features of UAG is its ability to perform endpoint detection, which allows...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 03/17/2011
No place like HOD
IBM’s Host On Demand (HOD) application is a fantastic solution, providing access to IBM mainframe...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 03/15/2011
Auto-Parsing UAG traces
Going through UAG traces can be a tedious task, especially when the server is busy (which could...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 03/07/2011
Forwarding on the 6to4 network interface cannot be enabled
An error you might run into when activating a DirectAccess configuration is the dreadful “Forwarding...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 01/26/2011
The UAG book is finally here!
Back in March of 2010, I was approached by Packt Publishing, from the UK, to write a book about UAG....
Author: Erez Benari Date: 01/24/2011
UAG and SharePoint mobile access
A nice feature of SharePoint is SharePoint Mobile Access, which allows you to access SharePoint...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 01/18/2011
Where are you, user?!?!
This time, a short one…some customers are wondering where would an administrator be able to know to...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 01/14/2011
Hiding the UAG portal bar
The UAG portal is designed to let you publish multiple applications using a single public hostname,...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 01/04/2011
Publishing Office Communication Server and Communicator Web Access with UAG
Publishing Office Communication Server (OCS) and Communicator Web Access (CWA) with UAG has been a...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 12/29/2010
SharePoint publishing concepts and considerations
SharePoint is probably the most common service that is published by UAG servers out there, and it...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 12/28/2010
Types of updates available for UAG
***As of April 2013, this page is no longer being kept current, as I have left the UAG support team....
Author: Erez Benari Date: 12/06/2010
Creating a policy for a corporate machine
A nice feature of the endpoint policy mechanism in UAG is the ability to create a Corporate-Machine...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 11/08/2010
Publish Exchange 2003 with UAG
The following is a guest-post by Alexandre Giraud, a highly valued MVP I’ve worked with a lot....
Author: Erez Benari Date: 10/26/2010
UAG Update 2 is out!
Many customers have been eagerly waiting for this update…even if they didn’t even know it was...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 09/21/2010
The customers ALWAYS win!
My dear colleagues Yuri and Thomas, who have written extensively everywhere about our various...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 09/20/2010
More chapters in the UAG book are out
I’ve gotten some great response about the first 3 chapters of the UAG book, and many customers are...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 09/13/2010
The configuration cannot be loaded from TMG storage
One of the common errors seen by many UAG users, usually following a new installation, is the error...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 09/13/2010
Default session vs privileged session vs privileged endpoint
Two terms that often confuse UAG and IAG customers are Privileged Session and Privileged Endpoint....
Author: Erez Benari Date: 09/03/2010
UAG Tracing made simple
Updated on Sep 20th 2012…see below Unlike many software products, where most errors are...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 09/02/2010
UAG custom Form Login
Single Sign On is one of the most useful features UAG offers, and Form Login is a very unique and...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 09/02/2010
Book smarts (UAG Book)
During the time I’ve been working with IAG and UAG, many customers and visitors to this blog asked...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 08/02/2010
Your computer does meet the security policy?
Well, this is not a police state, but if you don’t meet the policy, you’re in a bit of a pickle....
Author: Erez Benari Date: 07/29/2010
Phones be gone
One of the strong points of IAG over the years has been the fact that it supported multiple...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 05/24/2010
I can’t install WHAT?
With the release of UAG, our customers are finally able to install the product on any computer, as...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 05/24/2010
4 ways to tell there is something seriously wrong with your IAG appliance
Here are 4 ways to tell there is something seriously wrong with your IAG appliance: 1) When you turn...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 03/31/2010
Parsian Gulf
It’s time to talk a little about body parsing. One of IAG and UAGs key functions are parsing the...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 03/25/2010
Troubleshooting RuleSet issues
One of the primary security mechanisms built into IAG and UAG is the RuleSet engine. This mechanism...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 03/15/2010
It’s that time of the year again…
Yeah, folks, it’s that time of the year again – the time to update your IAG Server. Update 3 for IAG...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 03/08/2010
How to use the UAG ISO image file to install UAG
Like many other software packages, UAG is offered to the public as an ISO image (in addition to a...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 03/01/2010
Form Login Customization Troubleshooting
In a recent blog article, I wrote about form-login and how to create a custom one. Later on I...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 02/03/2010
Custom Form Login SSO how-to
One of the most important abilities of IAG is the single sign on, which lets connecting users access...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 01/22/2010
Creating a custom application template
IAG comes pre-populated with many application templates, but occasionally, one might need to...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 12/15/2009
Block by block
A useful feature with IAG is the ability to block file uploads and downloads, which can be enforced...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 08/05/2009
Grease up those hands
An important piece in the way IAG works is called URL signing. This process involves the server...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 08/04/2009
A little addition to drive mapping
I already discussed Drive Mapping with IAG several times, but one thing I failed to address properly...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 07/31/2009
Report to the principal's office
While school days might be over for this year, thank goodness, I want to talk a little about...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 07/10/2009
Policy Chase
With the introduction of SP2 for IAG, the process of creating custom endpoint detection policies has...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 06/08/2009
Performance Anxiety
Recently, I was in need of doing some performance troubleshooting, and used Windows’s built in...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 05/29/2009
Fetch me my files, please
An often-missed feature of IAG is the ability to let users access shares on internal servers when...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 04/16/2009
Hunt a virus
One of the best features of IAG is its ability to detect a connecting clients Anti-virus software,...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 04/03/2009
Configuring a ClickOnce Application using IAG
UPDATE Following the release of SP1 for UAG in December 2010, this type of publishing is no...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 04/03/2009
Troubleshooting IAG Client installation issues
The IAG client components are an important part of the endpoint security that the product provides,...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 03/20/2009
File Access mapping for a user's Home Directory troubleshooting
One feature of the IAG File-Access feature is the ability access the client's home directory. This...
Author: Erez Benari Date: 03/20/2009