Hi,
I have set up anywhere access (specifically remote web access) on a 2012 R2 Essentials server.
When I ran the wizard, it found the following issues:
"Anywhere Access to your server is blocked. Some routers may not work properly with your server...Some Internet service providers (ISP) block TCP ports 80 and 443 to prevent customers from remotely accessing services hosted on their networks..."
and
"There may be more than one router on your network. Windows Server Essentials is not able to setup the networking correctly."
We have a SonicWall router sitting behind an AT&T U-verse modem. The router's WAN IP is a static public IP from AT&T, and the Windows Server has a static LAN IP.
Since the SonicWall doesn't support UPNP, I manually configured NAT policies so that https 443 traffic is forwarded to the server.
The strange thing is that remote web access works just fine for the most part. Are the following issues safe to ignore?
Thanks.