Portals Overview; Domains Overview; Application Offloading And Http(S) Bookmarks Overview - Dell SMA 200 Administration Manual

Portals Overview

Secure Mobile Access provides a mechanism called Virtual Office that is a web-based portal interface that
provides clients with easy access to internal resources in your organization. Components such as NetExtender,
Secure Virtual Assist, and bookmarks to file shares and other network resources are presented to users through
the Virtual Office portal. For organizations with multiple user types, the SMA/SRA appliance allows for multiple
customized portals, each with its own set of shared resource bookmarks. Portals also allow for individual
domain and security certificates on a per-portal basis. The components in a portal are customized when adding
a portal.
File Shares
File shares provide remote users with a secure Web interface to Microsoft File Shares using the CIFS (Common
Internet File System) or SMB (Server Message Block) protocols. Using a Web interface similar in style to
Microsoft's familiar Network Neighborhood or My Network Places, File Shares allow users with appropriate
permissions to browse network shares, rename, delete, retrieve, and upload files, and to create bookmarks for
later recall. File shares can be configured to allow restricted server path access.
Custom Portals
SMA/SRA appliances allow you to configure multiple portals, each with their own title, banner, login message,
logo and set of available resources. Each portal also enables you to set individual Virtual Hosts/Domain Names
to create a unique default portal URL. When a user logs into a portal, he or she sees a set of pre-configured
links and bookmarks that are specific to that portal. You can configure whether or not NetExtender is displayed
on a Virtual Office portal, and if you want NetExtender to automatically launch when users log in to the portal.
The administrator configures which elements each portal displays through the Portal Settings window. For
information on configuring portals, refer to Portals > Portals on page 134.

Domains Overview

A domain in the Secure Mobile Access environment is a mechanism that enables authentication of users
attempting to access the network being serviced by the SMA/SRA appliance. Domain types include the Secure
Mobile Access internal LocalDomain, and the external platforms Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, and RADIUS.
Often, only one domain suffices to provide authentication to your organization, although a larger organization
might require distributed domains to handle multiple nodes or collections of users attempting to access
applications through the portal.
Application Offloading and HTTP(S) Bookmarks
Overview
SMA/SRA appliances use HTTP(S) bookmarks and application offloading to provide access to web-based
applications running on servers within the intranet. This includes SharePoint 2007 and the enhanced versions of
commonly-used Web mail interfaces, such as Microsoft OWA Premium and Domino Web Access 8.0.1, 8.5.1, and
8.5.2. SharePoint 2010 is supported with application offloading, but not with HTTP(S) bookmarks. SharePoint
2013 is supported with application offloading. Note that third-party modules that are not proxy friendly might
not be supported by SharePoint.
Both application offloading and HTTP(S) bookmarks use an HTTP(S) reverse proxy. A reverse proxy is a proxy
server that is deployed between a remote user outside an intranet and a target Web server within the intranet.
The reverse proxy intercepts and forwards packets that originate from outside the intranet. An HTTP(S) reverse
proxy specifically intercepts HTTP(S) requests and responses.
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