Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) supports many rich client applications by default. To use these applications, you must configure the user agent so that Forefront UAG can recognize the rich client when it attempts to connect to the application server. There are two main scenarios in which you might want to customize or add a user agent:
- For an Office application that is not
included by default.
- For a rich client application that is used by
your organization.
This topic describes how to add or modify user agents for rich client applications.
To customize user agents for rich client applications
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On the Forefront UAG server, locate the file ...\Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway\von\Conf\WizardDefaults\AgentDefaultParam.ini.
By default, this file contains the predefined definitions for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007 applications.
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To add a new user agent declaration, create an entry in the file based on the following, and modify it as required:
Copy Code [Agent2] Id=SP1 EnabledAppTypes=SharePoint2007AAM,SharePoint14AAM NumOfHeaders=1 RichClientsCheck=1 HeaderName1=User-Agent HeaderValue1=MSFrontPage CompMethod=VALUE_CONTAINS AuthScheme=Basic ErrorType=HTMLErrorPage SupportMsOfba=1
- Id—Enter a unique ID for the
application.
- EnabledAppTypes—This value maps the
defined application types to the agent definition. This value must
contain the application types defined in the WizardDefaultParam.ini
file that is located in the same folder as the
AgentDefaultParam.ini file.
- NumOfHeaders—Enter the number of
headers to be included.
- RichClientsCheck—Enter ‘1’ to check if
the check box was selected.
- HeaderName1—Enter the header name,
which determines the agent to be used for authentication. The
header name can be any HTTP header, for example, a user agent or a
URL. For each of the headers that you will use (defined in
NumOfHeaders), add another HeaderNameX parameter.
- HeaderValue1—Enter the header value
for the user agent. The header value can be either a string
specifying the user agent, or a URL. For each of the headers that
you will use (defined in NumOfHeaders), add another HeaderValueX
parameter.
- CompMethod—Enter the method by which
the agent is compared with the header name. There are three
possible values: NAME_EXISTS | VALUE_EQUALS | VALUE_CONTAINS.
- AuthScheme—Enter the method by which
this agent will be authenticated. The possible values are:
- Negotiate Kerberos, NTLM—Both Kerberos
and NTLM blobs created for 401 negotiate responses are accepted.
Pure NTLM (not negotiate) is also accepted.
- Negotiate Kerberos—Only Kerberos
tickets are accepted as part of the negotiation steps (401
negotiate).
- Negotiate NTLM—Only NTLM tickets are
accepted as part of the negotiation steps (401 negotiate). Pure
NTLM (not negotiate) is also accepted.
- Basic—Using this scheme, an HTTP 401
response is sent, and a dialog box opens in which end users can
enter their credentials.
- Anonymous—An HTTP 401 response is not
sent. End users are immediately treated as authenticated and are
rerouted to the login page.
- Negotiate Kerberos, NTLM—Both Kerberos
and NTLM blobs created for 401 negotiate responses are accepted.
Pure NTLM (not negotiate) is also accepted.
- ErrorType—This parameter determines
the error handling to be used. Enter either:
- HTMLErrorPage—An HTTP 200 OK page is
sent as a response to the client containing an HTML page with the
error message.
- HTTPErrorCode—An HTTP error code (such
as 500, 404 etc.) is sent as response. This is used for non-browser
traffic, for example, for OutlookAnywhere and or ActiveSync
clients.
- HTMLErrorPage—An HTTP 200 OK page is
sent as a response to the client containing an HTML page with the
error message.
- SupportMsOfba—Enter 1 if this user
agent can be used with Microsoft Office Forms Based Authentication
(MSOFBA); enter 0 if it cannot be used with MSOFBA.
Important: If you publish Exchange and SharePoint applications on the same trunk, you must set this parameter to 0 for the following user agents: - Microsoft Office/12.0
- Microsoft Office/14.0
- Microsoft Office Outlook
- Microsoft Office/12.0
- Id—Enter a unique ID for the
application.