WAF protection templates for common Microsoft services

Hi logan517,

The Exhange profiles are mainly for Microsoft Exchange 2010 or 2013. Unfortunately you cannot apply them directly for Exchange 2016 due to the changes Microsoft introduced in Exchange 2016. If you would like to use the UTM WAF with Exchange 2016, I recommend the following guide for now:

https://www.frankysweb.de/sophos-utm-9-4-waf-und-exchange-2016/

Best regards,

Attila Kovacs
Product Owner, WAF

Hi Attila Kovacs,

I had already asked in the WAF forum for this Problem (https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/f/web-server-security/86547/waf-exchange-2016-load-balancing-causes-login-problems) and had contact with our local Sophos Partner and Sophos Support direct.

5 Weeks after opening a ticket through our partner at Sophos, I'll get the official statement, that Exchange 2016 isn't supported at the moment. The Sophos support assumes an Exchange support for 9.5, but wan't sure.

Please fix this bug / support Exchange 2016 with more than one real Server or update the Names of your templates in 9.5 in Exchange 2010/2013 etc.
and as i said earlier, templates for other popular Microsoft servers would be nice

Regards

Hi logan517,

Renaming the templates to reflect the supported versions is definitely a good suggestion, thank you for bringing it up. We'll look into this.

Adding more templates for more applications is also among our plans, but at this point we don't have a committed timeline for it yet.

Regarding issue issue with multiple Exchange servers: I understand that you cannot use the approach with the sticky session cookies, but what is the reason behind not trying to solve the issue with reverse authentication? I believe that could be a potential solution for your problem.

Best regards,

Attila Kovacs
Product Owner, WAF

Hi logan517,

Renaming the templates to reflect the supported versions is definitely a good suggestion, thank you for bringing it up. We'll look into this.

Adding more templates for more applications is also among our plans, but at this point we don't have a committed timeline for it yet.

Regarding issue issue with multiple Exchange servers: I understand that you cannot use the approach with the sticky session cookies, but what is the reason behind not trying to solve the issue with reverse authentication? I believe that could be a potential solution for your problem.

Best regards,

Attila Kovacs
Product Owner, WAF

AttilaKovacs said:

Regarding issue issue with multiple Exchange servers: I understand that you cannot use the approach with the sticky session cookies

AttilaKovacs said:

but what is the reason behind not trying to solve the issue with reverse authentication? I believe that could be a potential solution for your problem.

We don't want to use the reverse authentication, we want to use the "normal" authentication of clients. The users should not notice that there is a utm etc.