install skype for business 2015 windows server 2012 r2

TMG is not supported on Windows 2012 so if it was to move forward a total rewrite would have been needed. UAG is a very powerful product but is hamstrung by its legacy roots in e-Gap and IAG and reliance on TMG underneath.

No word has been heard about any future development and with people like Erez Ben Ari ( Ben Ari on TechNet) moving to the IIS team it seems like the writing is on the wall for Microsoft’s Forefront TMG and UAG products. UAG development seemed to have slowed down and the latest Service Pack added support for Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013 but not even Lync 2013 that came out at the same time. I have a particular interest in the reverse proxy side having done a lot of work with UAG lately which makes me miss TMG! As discussed in my previous blog Publish Lync 2013 Including Mobility and Office Web Apps with UAG 2010, with TMG disappearing the only Microsoft product (other than IIS with ARR) with reverse proxy functionality is Microsoft Forefront UAG (Unified Access Gateway).

The Web Application Proxy is a reverse proxy and ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) Proxy that also provides functionality like Workplace Join for Windows 8.1 using the Device Registration Service (DRS). It provides the ability to publish access to corporate resources, and enforce multi-factor authentication as well as apply conditional access policies to verify both the user’s identity and the device they are using resources, and enforce multi-factor authentication as well as verify the device being used before access is granted. Web Application Proxy – The Web Application Proxy is a new role service in the Windows Server Remote Access role. The announcement from Microsoft TechEd North America early in June that got me really interested was the Windows 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy which was described as: Clarification about modifying published applications.Clarification about ADFS being a hard requirement for the Web Application Proxy, even if only doing pass-through.ActiveSync does not support SNI so a default binding needs to be set on the Web Application Proxy as per the post above to make it work.Lync 2013 and Office Web Apps 2013 have been tested and work with some configuration changes.

They say it will be fixed in the RTM version

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.

Updated PowerShell deployment of Web Application Proxy blog after testing with RTM – see.

Tested after Windows 2012 R2 RTM released to Technet and Outlook Anywhere works now.

Install skype for business 2015 windows server 2012 r2