Anyone using "Server 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy"

[win]

It is used as a reverse proxy and is the replacement for UAG.

 

Is your WAP server on the domain or workgroup?

[lholland421]

Hi, Did you get anywhere with Web application Proxy ? I have tried to publish exchange 2013 but i cannot get it to work. Have you managed to publish any other applications using this ?

[IanT]

We setup WAP (Web Application Proxy) within are academy group to publish certain services along side ADFS.

 

Important to point out:

 

Is WAP a replacement for TMG 2010 and/or UAG 2010?

No. The bottom line is that WAP offers a very small subset of what both TMG and UAG offered. WAP is pure and simple a reverse proxy solution for publishing your internal web applications to external clients.

 

Web Application Proxy (FAQs) - keithab - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

 

Publishing Exchange Server 2013 via WAP :

 

Setting up Windows Application Proxy for Exchange 2013 - IT Architecture, Connected Collaboration (and Stuff) - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

 

Note, we are still using UAG for publishing some other services.

[lholland421]

Thanks for the reply, I am currently looking for a service that will allow users to login once from home to access all of our services. Not sure this will do this.

 

Thanks

[IanT]

Sure, we are not using all the features of WAP but I know its limited.

 

I was in the process a few months researching a proper solution for UAG, I breifly looked at Sophos UTM:

 

https://www.sophos.com/products/unified/utm/tmg-replacement.aspx

 

My research stalled due to projects! will have to pick up at some point!

[john]

We looked at it for TMG replacement and wrote it off, its too basic and not flexible enough and are now evaluating the Kemp appliance which they helpfully suggest as a TMG replacement.

[lholland421]

Are there any open source / free solutions that would do the job ?

[nickbro]

You can use Microsoft's Application Request Routing Plugin: https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/application-request-routing if you just want to do reverse proxying.

 

See https://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/planning-for-arr/application-request-routing-version-2-overview for more.

 

I use ARR to proxy some requests to other servers while using just one web server (RMMC/Eclipse/etc)

[ITGuyWestMidlands]

Arp can do it but cant do adfs so still have split 80 and 443. Bit annoying. Apparently server 10 wap can do http and https

[win]

I use it for adfs but it's a very basic reverse proxy. It can do exchange as well but i don't have experience of that. I don't there is a need for open source as this is free with 2012r2, unless extra functionality is needed.

 

it only has 2 options, pass-through or authenticate at WAP