Microsoft IAG (Soon to be UAG)

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Anybody here use, or have experience of Microsofts Intelligent Application Gateway product (soon to be Forefront Unified Access Gateway)? If so, has it been a good product? What are you mainly using it for?

Also, do you know of any other supplier (Cisco etc) who do a simillar product?
 
I worked with IAG back when it was still called Whale (and was a hugely expensive bit of kit due to the e-gap technology it used). It was pretty powerful but took us a lot of time to setup correctly.

That seems to have improved slightly but I'd still be wary of going near it again just because the support doesn't hold up to the same level as other competing vendors unless you go with one of the third party hardware integrations like Celestix (although I slightly resent paying over the odds for cheap hardware just for a bit of convenience).

In terms of alternatives, can you give a bit more detail on what you want to do?
 
Not really sure. Product eval was just dumped on my desk by the boss, saying look into this and see what it does and if we can use it and see if there are any alternatives. Think it was around whether we could replace the Cisco ASA VPN/Webmail solution we currently run.
 
If you are after something simple then there are a range of SSL VPN solutions now from cheap and cheerful (e.g. low end Netscreen units) to mid range (e.g. AEP Networks) to high end (e.g. F5).

Best bet is to have a play with it just to keep your boss happy but it's worth putting together a list of what you might want it to do for you (rather than just looking at what it can do).

Depending on what firewall you have, you might even be able to bolt on SSL as a module or look at upgrading to a model that includes it. The less hardware/different vendors the easier your life is going to be :)
 
We are using AIG, its mainly used for serving up internal apps and data to externals, together with terminal server you can offer your enterprise apps to peoples desktops at home.
 
What do you need to do?

We sell and use Sonicwall SSL-VPNs and I have never had any trouble with them. Thick client data across the VPN or Web Based publication of full on Terminal Servicing, Internal websites etc.

Pretty impressive bits of kit for the price. The clientless web based stuff is great for ad-hoc access to various corporate bits and the SSL-VPN client itself can come down through Active-X.
 
That's my problem. I don't really know what this software does, one of our customers has come in and said it looks good and he had seen it in operation elsewhere and liked the looks of it. I need to find out what it is/does, how it compares to what we currently offer. We currently offer OWA (Outlook Web Access) over SSL VPN and IPSEC access for laptops through a pair of Cisco ASA5540's, so i need to see where this type of solution would fit, or would it replace?

Other than that i dont really have any more info, need to sit down with the customer and find out what/why they want this.
 
Cheers, i'll have a look later. Hopefully i should be getting MS in to talk me through it and compare against current offering.
 
Sin_Chase said:
What do you need to do?

We sell and use Sonicwall SSL-VPNs and I have never had any trouble with them. Thick client data across the VPN or Web Based publication of full on Terminal Servicing, Internal websites etc.

Pretty impressive bits of kit for the price. The clientless web based stuff is great for ad-hoc access to various corporate bits and the SSL-VPN client itself can come down through Active-X.
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I personally administer a Sonicwall Aventail appliance. Granular control over what can be accessed and by whom is wonderful, nicely integrates with AD and to be honest as VPN solution was fairly painless.
 
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