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HerrMaximilianL
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iOS per App VPN for outbound calls in Microsoft Teams

Hello,

I'm running in some issues regarding in-App-calls in Microsoft Teams.

We've setup an on-demand VPN-Tunnel for all Microsoft365-Apps. You can also only link your Account over the Office-Apps, if you tunnel these Apps through our Proxy.

On Android I have no problem calling out of the App, but on iOS the call gets always canceled.

Our Network-Setup is like the following:
Mobile Device -> Tunnel -> UAG -> Proxy -> Internet

As I've observed the outbound calls get handled by the normal iOS-call-App. Maybe that is the problem, that this standard-iOS-App doesn't get tunneled.

Do you guys have some experience with that problem, that your in-App-WiFi-calls don't work through the VPN-Tunnel on iOS? Or do you have any workaround for this issue?

Best regards
Maxi
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ITGPap
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Hi all,

an update to this.

We deployed the following workaround and it seems to work for us:

We deleted the teams app from the iOS device, as the app pre-existed on the device before the per-app Vpn deployment,  and the resend it from AW1 and now we can successfully accept calls and join meetings.

What we also had to deal with before, was some firewall rules too, but this depends on the current config of each case.

I hope it helps!

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MarkSchwantje
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I did some more testing with iOS 14 beta 1 and Teams 2.0.15. It was not working for me, but at some point Teams crashed during my testing. Strangely, after this crash, Teams starting working properly using per-app VPN over Tunnel. I continued to test it quite a number of times, and it worked consistently.

I left for vacation and came back this week. I noticed that iOS 14 beta 2 and Teams 2.0.17 came out. I updated my device to both. After doing this, joining a meeting in Teams would not work again over per-app VPN. After multiple attempts at testing, Teams crashed again and actually caused my iPhone to power cycle. When the phone came back on, Teams started working properly again over per-app VPN! I continued testing it, and it worked for a while. However, I decided to change Teams to the Dark Theme, and after Teams restarted, joining a meeting stopped working again.

So while it seems that iOS 14 has addressed the problem in some capacity, it is extremely inconsistent.

aguedesrocha
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Thanks MarkSchwantje​ for the feedback, look like there is some progress.

Have you report that back to Apple, since iOS 14 still in development.

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MarkSchwantje
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They want me to collect logs if the problems persist after iOS 14 beta 3 is released, which is supposedly very soon.

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MarkSchwantje
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I have a puzzling update. iOS 14 beta 3 came out, and the behavior has continued to remain inconsistent. Sometimes joining a meeting in Teams works fine over the per-app VPN connection; other times it does not. I worked with the engineer to submit more logs, but time is running out to get this fixed before iOS 14 goes public.

Having said that, one of my colleagues informed me that Teams started working properly for her on her iOS 13.5.1 iPhone. I've now tested a number of my test devices running iOS 13.5.1, and they all seem to be working properly and consistently. We have not made any changes in our AirWatch/Tunnel environment, and Apple stated that no changes to per-app VPN were made in iOS 13.5.1 or 13.6. I even tested this on one of my devices running iOS 13.4.1, and it works there too. The only thing that has changed recently are newer versions of the Teams app. However, Microsoft stated that this wasn't a problem with Teams, so I'm not sure why newer versions of Teams would have potentially fixed this problem.

Has it started working for anyone else?

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troysp
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I hate to respond to an old post but is anyone else having this inconsistent issue with Teams and calling?  We are having this issue and it works more than it doesn't but we still have users who are unable to call.  We also have a few users who can join meetings but either cannot hear the meeting or the people in the meeting cannot hear the participant on Teams mobile.  Most of the Teams traffic is tunneled in our setup and there are a few exceptions that are not tunneled. As I said, for most users is it is working but there are a lot of inconsistencies with Teams and the tunnel.

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