UAG SP1 Release Candidate

  About a week ago Microsoft published the final Release Candidate for Unified Access Gateway Service Pack 1. You can read the announcement directly from the UAG Product Team. There are a number of enhancements and new features, but before you push a n RC into production you should check out Tom Schinder's new Test Lab Guide – Demonstrate UAG SP1 RC DirectAccess. It shows you how to stand up a complete UAG DA environment without touching your production servers. Highlights for DirectAccess in SP1

• One Time Password (OTP): The name might be a little misleading because this is actually an update to supported Two Factor Authentication methods for DirectAccess clients. Read more about it on TechNet.
• New DCA v1.5: The DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant has been updated to support OTP, but it is also more directly baked into UAG from a configuration and deployment standpoint.
• Support for "Manage Out" scenarios: If you want to use DirectAccess only as a means of managing your remote computers through Group Policy and not necessarily allow those users to reach into your corpnet resources, then SP1 is your meal ticket.
• And more: Including Forced Tunneling and Improved Monitoring.

There is an article on TechNet with a complete list of the changes to compare UAG RTM to the RC. You can find more details and some screenshots from the new UI at the product team blog.