Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Beta 2

by admin July 13, 2009 at 6:40 pm

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is a secure application gateway, to manage, control, and optimize remote access for managed and non-managed endpoints, to corporate applications and resources.

Forefront UAG provides the following:

• Remote access: Using Forefront UAG you can allow and control access to internal resources and applications from a range of managed and unmanaged client endpoints.
• Application support: Forefront UAG provides broad application support for a wide range of Microsoft and third-party applications. Application optimizers, consisting of predefined settings and values, provide optimum settings for accessing a specific application via Forefront UAG.
• Access control: Forefront UAG provides granular access control, to ensure that only client endpoints complying with corporate health guidelines can access internal applications and resources.
• Authentication: Forefront UAG provides frontend and backend authentication mechanisms. Frontend authentication allows you to pre-authenticate users using a wide range of authentication mechanisms, ensuring that only authenticated traffic reaches published application servers. In addition, Forefront UAG provides a single sign-on experience for authentication to backend applications.

System Requirements
• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise; Windows Server 2008 Standard
This software requires Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise Editions x64.

Download: Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Beta 2