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PaulAndrew
Microsoft
MicrosoftOffice 365 Network Performance tool POC release
[Edit: A new version of the POC was published on 6/19/2019. Announced here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Networking/Updated-Office-365-Network-Onboarding-Tool-POC-with-new-networ...
I took a look at the tool and it does not make a lot of sense to me.
My location is Zurich, Switzerland. In Chrome, i get a recommendation for a Service Front Door in Marseille, France (800 km), in Edge, for Paris, France.
Our WAN egress is in Bern, Switzerland.
However, we are supposed to have an entry to the Microsoft Global Network around 100 km from Bern, Switzerland and just about to order a direct pairing with this "Service Front Door" (?):
Thanks,
Franck
- PaulAndrew
Franck1304 Our datacenters in Switzerland do not yet have Exchange Online service front doors active in them, hence they don't show up in our data.
Regards,
Paul
PaulAndrew , hmm, thanks Paul, i thought a "front door" is the entry into the Microsoft Global Network and not in a specific datacenter. We do not plan to use the Switzerland based datacenter for Office 365 / ExO. However it was our understanding to chose the closest entry point into the MGN to connect into the MGN.
Is this a wrong interpretation?
Thanks,
Franck- PaulAndrew
Franck1304 we use the term Office 365 service front door to refer to the first Microsoft server that your connection reaches at an application layer so that the TCP connection is terminated. For Exchange Online these are client access front end servers and they do not store your maibox data at rest. This is also different to a router on Microsofts ASN 8075 network.
Paul
