Anywhere access wizard issues

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.

Hi Jason,
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Since the SonicWall doesn't support UPNP, I manually configured NAT policies so that https 443 traffic is forwarded to the server.
When run
Set up Anywhere Access wizard, the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials will attempt to configure your router. If UPnP is supported in router, Windows 2012 Server R2 Essentials may be able to automatically configure the router. Since your SonicWall router
does not support UPnP, those red warnings will be shown as you see in the Set up Anywhere Access wizard and you need to
manually configure your router. Meanwhile, since you have manually configured the router to forward TCP 443 port, the RWA will run as normal.
So, I agree with Robert. If RWA works fine, those red warning message in
Set up Anywhere Access wizard can be safely ignored.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

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I hope this is a simple configuration problem
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This has been raised before. See this forum search https://community.bt.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?q=Server+2012&filter=labels%2Clocation&loc...
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Hi ErikLely,
Before going further, would you please let me know if the error message you described was complete? If not, please post the complete error message or provide a screenshot.
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Best regards,
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Hi:
Need more info:
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