Mapping your deployment goals to an endpoint access design

To begin the Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) endpoint access and identity design process, you must first identify your deployment goals (see Identifying your endpoint access deployment goals). After evaluating these goals, you can select a design that meets your endpoint access and identity deployment objectives.

The following table maps each possible deployment goal to the planning tasks that you must perform to implement that goal.

Deployment goal	Planning tasks
Remote employee access	Planning for frontend authentication in particular LDAP authentication Planning for backend authentication to published servers Planning for portal application authorization Planning for endpoint health checking Planning to implement endpoint access policies
Partner access	Planning for federation with AD FS Planning for portal application authorization Planning for endpoint health checking Planning to implement endpoint access policies
Customer access	Planning for frontend authentication Planning for portal application authorization Planning for endpoint health checking Planning to implement endpoint access policies