Forefront Unified Access Gateway

Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 (UAG) delivers comprehensive, secure remote access to corporate resources for employees, partners, and vendors on both managed and unmanaged PCs and mobile devices. Utilizing a combination of connectivity options, ranging from SSL VPN to DirectAccess, as well as built in configurations and policies, UAG provides centralized and easy management of an organization's complete anywhere access offering.

Integrating a deep understanding of the applications published, the state of health of the devices being used to gain access, and the user's identity – UAG enforces granular access controls and policies to deliver comprehensive remote access, ensure security, and reduce management costs and complexity.

Benefits:

• Publish Web and non-Web applications by means of Forefront UAG trunks. You can create a portal trunk to provide a one-to-many connection with a single IP address, allowing users to access multiple applications from a consolidated portal gateway. You can also create a single-application trunk to provide a one-to-one connection; one IP address routes to a single published Web server, enabling access to any generic Web application.
• Forefront UAG integrates Windows Server 2008 R2 DirectAccess to allow seamless connectivity to corporate networks regardless of location. DirectAccess can be configured directly in the Forefront UAG Management console.
• Forefront UAG allows you to group multiple Forefront UAG servers into an array. All array members share the same configuration, and can be managed as a single entity. One of the array members acts as the array manager, storing configuration settings for the entire array. You can configure array members to use network load balancing (NLB) for high-availability and failover. Use integrated Forefront UAG NLB to configure NLB features of Windows Server 2008 R2 directly in the Forefront UAG Management console.
• You can log Forefront UAG events and errors to a variety of logging formats, including a built-in reporter, a RADIUS server, and a local or remote SQL server. Forefront UAG provides the Web Monitor console as a Web application for viewing events, and managing Forefront UAG sessions.