Making Sharepoint 2010 available externally using MS UAG 2010 you would think would be fairly straightforward however our experience is at best its very flakey! This is kind of backed up by the fact numerous blog posts & guides from Microsoft & 3rd party’s contradict each other, these are just my notes for how I managed to get it to work.

2 x WFE Windows Server NLB IP: 192.168.1.100

Public Host Name – extranet.abccorp.co.uk

Sharepoint Webapp: docs.abccorp.local
DNS: docs.abccorp.local –> 192.168.1.100

1) Making configuration changes on the UAG published application config – our experience was that if you create a new web application config in the UAG from scratch compared to editting an existing one to the same config you would quite often get different results. So when applying any config changes we always deleted the trunk & the published app config and recreated them from scratch with the required new config, this was the only way we felt we we’re getting the ‘true’ result of the config change.

2) The Application Server addresses & the application url – In order to get the UAG Sharepoint web application to work we had the following config:

HTTPS Trunk:
Public Hostname – extranet.abccorp.co.uk

Sharepoint UAG App:
Web Servers (Addresses tab) – docs.abccorp.local (DNS points the the NLB WFE IP Address)
Public Host Name (Addresses tab) – extranet.abccorp.co.uk
Application URL (Portal Link tab) – http://docs.abccorp.local

Notes on above –
# The address we put in for the web servers & application URL had to be the same, if they weren’t the same it seems the UAG didn’t encode the application URL correctly on the client side.

# We used Windows Server NLB as opposed to using the UAG to do the Load Balancing

Sample CSS to customise the ‘Site Actions’ buttons in Sharepoint 2010

/* Site Actions Menu */
.ms-siteactionsmenu{
border:1px solid transparent;
background-color:#F2F2F4;
}
.ms-siteactionsmenu .ms-menu-a span{
color:#000000;
}
.ms-siteactionsmenu .ms-siteactionsmenuhover {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
color:#ffffff;
}

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An example XSL template to display document details in a content query webpart:

<xsl:template name="DocumentsDetails" match="Row[@Style='DocumentsDetails']" mode="itemstyle">
       <xsl:variable name="SafeLinkUrl">
            <xsl:call-template name="OuterTemplate.GetSafeLink">
                 <xsl:with-param name="UrlColumnName" select="'LinkUrl'"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
       </xsl:variable>
       <xsl:variable name="DisplayTitle">
            <xsl:call-template name="OuterTemplate.GetTitle">
                <xsl:with-param name="Title" select="''"/>
                <xsl:with-param name="UrlColumnName" select="'LinkUrl'"/>
                <xsl:with-param name="UseFileName" select="1"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
       </xsl:variable>
	   <xsl:variable name="DisplayAuthor">
     <xsl:call-template name="OuterTemplate.GetTitle">
         <xsl:with-param name="Title" select="''"/>
         <xsl:with-param name="UrlColumnName" select="'LinkUrl'"/>
         <xsl:with-param name="UseFileName" select="1"/>
     </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
         <div class="item link-item">
         <xsl:if test="string-length(@DocumentIconImageUrl) != 0">
             <div class="image-area-left"> 

		<a href="{$SafeLinkUrl}" title="{@LinkToolTip}">
<xsl:if test="$ItemsHaveStreams = 'True'">
                   <xsl:attribute name="onclick">
                     <xsl:value-of select="@OnClickForWebRendering"/>
                   </xsl:attribute>
                 </xsl:if>
                 <xsl:if test="$ItemsHaveStreams != 'True' and @OpenInNewWindow = 'True'">
                   <xsl:attribute name="onclick">
                     <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$OnClickTargetAttribute"/>
                   </xsl:attribute>
                 </xsl:if> 

                 <img class="image" src="{@DocumentIconImageUrl}" title="" />
				 </a>
             </div>
         </xsl:if>
         <div class="link-item">
         <div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: -2%">
             <xsl:call-template name="OuterTemplate.CallPresenceStatusIconTemplate"/>
             <a href="{$SafeLinkUrl}" title="{@LinkToolTip}">
                 <xsl:if test="$ItemsHaveStreams = 'True'">
                   <xsl:attribute name="onclick">
                     <xsl:value-of select="@OnClickForWebRendering"/>
                   </xsl:attribute>
                 </xsl:if>
                 <xsl:if test="$ItemsHaveStreams != 'True' and @OpenInNewWindow = 'True'">
                   <xsl:attribute name="onclick">
                     <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$OnClickTargetAttribute"/>
                   </xsl:attribute>
                 </xsl:if>
                 <xsl:value-of select="$DisplayTitle"/> 

               </a>   |   <xsl:value-of select="@Author" />   |   <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="no" select="ddwrt:FormatDate(string(@Description), 2057, 5)" />
 	</div>
           </div>
       </div>
  </xsl:template>

A returned file in the CQWP will display:

Plan 36 | xxxxxx\StilgoeP | 01/06/2011 09:35

Doc Icon (links to doc) – Doc Title (links to doc) – Author – Modified Date & Time

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