Latest improvements to WAP

Web Application Proxy was introduced in Server 2012 R2 and had many improvements when Windows Server 2016 was released. There have been no major modifications since that time, but it is still important to point out the latest benefits that have been rolled into this feature, to show that it is still learning to do new things. The following are some of the improvements that have been made if you haven't taken a look at WAP since its first iteration.

Preauthentication for HTTP Basic

There are two different ways that users can authenticate to applications that are being published by Web Application Proxy—preauthentication or pass-thru authentication. When publishing an application with preauthentication, this means that users will have to stop by the AD FS interface to authenticate themselves before they are allowed through to the web application itself.

In my eyes, preauthentication is a critical component to any reverse-proxy and...