PowerShell Deployment of Web Application Proxy and ADFS in Under 10 Minutes

14th of August, 2013 / / 17 Comments

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Updated 10 September 2013: tested with Windows 2012 R2 RTM and the script functions as in R2 Preview. Outlook Anywhere bug in the Preview code has been fixed and Outlook now works with RTM. Updated the script to correct Autodiscover ExternalURL
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In this post I will be discussing deploying a highly available Windows 2012 R2 Preview ADFS and Web Application Proxy solution using only PowerShell. This was done as a proof of concept to compare the time taken as well as complexity to build and configure a Reverse Proxy solution to replace a UAG 2010 array.… [Keep reading] “PowerShell Deployment of Web Application Proxy and ADFS in Under 10 Minutes”

Publish Lync 2013 with 2012 R2 Preview Web Application Proxy

15th of July, 2013 / / 16 Comments

I discussed the new Windows 2012 R2 Preview Web Application Proxy (WAP) remote access role in a previous post Windows 2012 R2 Preview Web Application Proxy – Exchange 2013 Publishing Tests. I showed how to publish Exchange 2013 (except for Outlook Anywhere which isn’t working) and a claims based application.

In this post I am going to cover:

Publishing Lync Applications

Lync has a few different namespaces that need to be published:

  • Lync External Web Services (which includes the Lync Web App and Lync Scheduler)
  • Lync meeting join
  • Lync dialin page
  • Lyncdiscover for client autodiscover
  • Office Web Apps Server for PowerPoint sharing

Lync applications cannot use Preauthentication and have to use Pass-through which lets the backend server provide authentication.… [Keep reading] “Publish Lync 2013 with 2012 R2 Preview Web Application Proxy”

Windows 2012 R2 Preview Web Application Proxy – Exchange 2013 Publishing Tests

3rd of July, 2013 / / 51 Comments

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Updated: 10 September 2013

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Updated: 15 July 2013

  • I have heard from a member of the Web Application Proxy product group who said there is a bug in the Preview version that prevents Outlook Anywhere from working. They say it will be fixed in the RTM version
  • Lync 2013 and  Office Web Apps 2013 have been tested and work with some configuration changes.
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