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March 4 2010

In pictures: TechEd MiddleEast 2010, Dubai

TechEd was awesome. 1500 techies under one roof. Amazing.
I could not agree more with fellow TechEd speaker Andy Malone, who wrote in his blog:
The feedback has been amazing and for that you have my thanks. TechEd is a unique worldwide event, now running in ten locations worldwide. One thing that really stands out is its [...]

March 4 2010

TechEd session: Your evaluation is important!

I would like to thank those of you that attended my session on Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway and DirectAccess yesterday at TechEd Middle East 2010. If you heard about this blog from my session, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS.
I cannot stress enough on how important your session evaluations are. [...]

February 24 2010

Learn about DirectAccess and Forefront UAG at TechEd

Countdown to TechEd – 4 days to go.
T minus 4 for the biggest tech event in Dubai — TechEd Middle East 2010.
Here’s a reminder of the session that I will be speaking at. Hope to see you there!
Session: SIA308 – Secure Remote Access with Unified Access Gateway and Direct Access
Track: Security, Identity and Access [...]

February 22 2010

Presenting Windows 7 to the press

For the first time in my life, I was given an opportunity to speak to the local press about Windows 7. I had a discussion on Windows 7 with editors from the local English dailies.
I had a good time, and demonstrated some of the Windows 7 features that let users do more in less time [...]

February 22 2010

Enabling SSO with RemoteApp on UAG

If you are publishing RemoteApp or Remote Desktop Services on Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010, and have enabled Single Sign On (SSO) on the RDS application in UAG, you might find that UAG tries to perform user logon on the published server using computername\username instead of domain\username.
I’ve researched this issue and found that there’s nothing [...]

February 22 2010

Publishing Remote Desktop Services on UAG

If you’re trying to publish Remote Desktop Services or RemoteApp on Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010, and if you encounter the following error, read on:
“Your computer can’t connect to the remote computer because no certificate was configured to use at the Remote Desktop Gateway server. Contact your network administrator for assistance”.

Before we look into [...]