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Even if DirectAccess is now much more easier to deploy with Windows Server 2012, there still have some “cases” where Microsoft help is required. Jason Jones (Former Forefront MVP) updated his “ Hot list ” recently. Keep a bookmark on this list. This can save a lot of time during your next DirectAccess...
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Forefront UAG 2010 SP3 update is a pretty strait process. In my case my UAG Box was dedicated to DirectAccess. If the update process is strait forward, there is one thing to do not forget after update : reconfiguring DNS64 service. By default, this service is reconfigured from Automatic startup type...
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According to Forefront UAG team blog , UAG 2010 Service Pack 3 is in progress and should be available in the first quarter of 2013. Additional information are provided by a recent Ben Ari blog post . According to ben Ari, support for Windows 8 clients connecting to a UAG 2010 SP3 in DirectAccess...
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At RTM times of Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010, only Unicast mode was supported for Network Load Balancing scenarios. Since SP1, Multicast support was added but it was not clear for what scenarios. A blog post from Ben Ari provide a clear position about unicast/multicast support in Network Load Balancing...
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Nous attendions la communication officielle de Microsoft depuis quelques temps. Maintenant que celle-ci est publique ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/09/12/important-changes-to-forefront-product-roadmaps.aspx ), il nous est apparu nécessaire d'en préciser certains aspects. La...
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That’s an interesting problem I had to face to during a recent deployment. My UAG box was crashing randomly without any cause. My first research lead me to the Microsoft Edge Security forum dedicated to DirectAccess, UAG and IAG . After some research, I Finally found people having the same problem as...
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We’ve been waiting for next major update of Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 for a while. Today, the UAG product team announced availability of UAG 2010 Service Pack 2 . Detailed information about this new service pack are available in the KB2710791 . This Service Pack aim to provide more scenarios around...
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For me DirectAccess was a technical challenge including multiple technologies and involve multiple teams in a same project. I was involved in multiple DirectAccess deployments in witch customers choose DirectAccess for it’s user-experience focus rather than for the technical solution (until now none...
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It’s not so common but Microsoft published the Security Bulletin MS12-026 concerning Microsoft Forefront UAG. Technically, two reported vulnerabilities were discovered in Microsoft Forefront UAG and Microsoft rated it important. Because there is no possible Workaround or mitigating factors, we should...
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We’ve just received an email from our publisher and our DirectAccess book will be available on the 9th of January 2012. This is the end of a long work started at the beginning of March 2011. The book is not yet available but you can have more information about it from our editor web site . Thank...
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From the same author who already provide us our UAG bible , we will have soon a new UAG book focused on UAG customization. For sure, UAG is a great product. BenoitS – Simple and Secure by Design but Business Compliant
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In a recent bog post, Yuri Diogenes gave five reasons to apply Forefront TMG SP2. many new feature already covered by the TMG team . I wont enumerate a lot of reasons for UAG, only a single one : MS11-079 . KB2544641 provide additional information on these vulnerabilities. And the first reason...
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Le Service Pack 1 pour Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) est disponible au téléchargement: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27604&WT.mc_id=rss_alldownloads_all Forefront UAG Update 1 permettra notamment de publier les services web de Lync. Fonctionnalités...
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Si TMG a son lot de mise à jour, alors UAG doit suivre très rapidement. C’est effectivement le cas puisque l’update 1 du Service Pack 1 de Forefront UAG 2010 est disponible à cette adresse . Dans la liste des nouveautés, on peut citer : La possibilité de...
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When you have problem with IPHTTPS in DirectAccess, there might be hundreds of reasons, including IT guy errors. Enumerate all errors might be too long, there are too many cases and causes. It would be easier if we have a list of all error code that a NETSH.EXE INTERFACE HTTPSTUNNEL SHOW INTERFACE can...
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Quand le protocole IPHTTPS utilisé par DirectAccess ne fonctionne pas, il peut y avoir une multitude de raisons. Au lieu de toutes les énumérer, le plus simple c’est déjà d’avoir la liste des codes erreurs qu’une interface IPHTTPS peut inventer pour refuser de fonctionner. Ca existe, c’est disponible...
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L’équipe Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 vient d’annoncer que son produit avait satisfait aux exigences Common Criteria Evaluation Assurances Level 2+ (EAL 2+). Cette évaluation a été menée avec le Service Pack 1 du produit. Benoits – Simple and Secure by Design but Business Compliant.
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Normalement, c’est l’assistant de DirectAccess qui le configure pour vous. Dès lors que notre serveur Windows 2008 R2 ou Forefront UAG 2010 ne dispose pas d’une connectivité réseau IPv6, un routeur ISATAP est automatiquement mis en œuvre sur votre plateforme DirectAccess. Cependant, il y a des...
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These days, I spend most of my work time with DirectAccess and Network Access Protection (including night!). During A Poc, I was surprised to see a NAP client considered as compliant unable to access the internal Network. Problem, by default NAP client is not configured to trace relevant events. The...
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C’est mon point de vue. DirectAccess n’est que l’assemblage de briques existantes des systèmes d’exploitation de Microsoft. ce n’est donc pas de la magie noire. Au contraire, une fois chaque brique clairement expliquée, DirectAccess apparait immédiatement plus clair. Pour vous en convraincre, voila une...